Super universality of the quantum Hall effect and the ``large N picture of the angle

DOI10.1007/S10773-009-9947-7zbMATH Open1167.81459arXiv0811.3299OpenAlexW2003485447MaRDI QIDQ2390905FDOQ2390905

Authors: A. M. M. Pruisken 

Publication date: 10 August 2009

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that the "massless chiral edge excitations" are an integral and universal aspect of the low energy dynamics of the $vartheta$ vacuum that has historically gone unnoticed. Within the $SU(M+N)/S(U(M)imesU(N))$ non-linear sigma model we introduce an effective theory of "edge excitations" that fundamentally explains the quantum Hall effect. In sharp contrast to the common beliefs in the field our results indicate that this macroscopic quantization phenomenon is, in fact, a {em super universal} strong coupling feature of the $vartheta$ angle with the replica limit $M=N=0$ only playing a role of secondary importance. To demonstrate super universality we revisit the large $N$ expansion of the $C{P}^{N-1}$ model. We obtain, for the first time, explicit scaling results for the quantum Hall effect including quantum criticality of the quantum Hall plateau transition. Consequently a scaling diagram is obtained describing the cross-over between the weak coupling "instanton phase" and the strong coupling "quantum Hall phase" of the large $N$ theory. Our results are in accordance with the "instanton picture" of the $vartheta$ angle but fundamentally invalidate all the ideas, expectations and conjectures that are based on the historical "large $N$ picture."

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3299

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonsquantum Hall effectquantum criticalitylarge \(N\) expansion\(\vartheta \) renormalization\(\vartheta \) vacuummassless chiral edge excitationssuper universality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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