The \(\nu=5/2\) quantum Hall state revisited: spontaneous breaking of the chiral fermion parity and phase transition between Abelian and non-Abelian statistics

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01076-3zbMath1008.81102arXivhep-th/0108173MaRDI QIDQ1856127

Lachezar S. Georgiev

Publication date: 28 January 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108173

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorycompletely polarized ground stateMoore-Read states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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