Absolutely continuous edge spectrum of Hall insulators on the lattice

DOI10.1007/S00023-021-01097-2MaRDI QIDQ2118817zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex Bols, Albert H. Werner

Publication date 23 March 2022

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

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

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)

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.

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