Absolutely continuous edge spectrum of Hall insulators on the lattice

DOI10.1007/S00023-021-01097-2zbMATH Open1487.81160arXiv2101.08603OpenAlexW3193381715MaRDI QIDQ2118817FDOQ2118817

Authors: Alex Bols, Albert H. Werner 

Publication date: 23 March 2022

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The presence of chiral modes on the edges of quantum Hall samples is essential to our understanding of the quantum Hall effect. In particular, these edge modes should support ballistic transport and therefore, in a single particle picture, be supported in the absolutely continuous spectrum of the single-particle Hamiltonian. We show in this note that if a free fermion system on the two-dimensional lattice is gapped in the bulk, and has a nonvanishing Hall conductance, then the same system put on a half-space geometry supports edge modes whose spectrum fills the entire bulk gap and is absolutely continuous.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08603

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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