Effective field theory and tunneling currents in the fractional quantum Hall effect

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.10.012zbMATH Open1243.81241arXiv1107.5012OpenAlexW3098006140WikidataQ57676914 ScholiaQ57676914MaRDI QIDQ413146FDOQ413146

Samuel Bieri, Jürg Fröhlich

Publication date: 4 May 2012

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the construction of a low-energy effective field theory and its state space for "abelian" quantum Hall fluids. The scaling limit of the incompressible fluid is described by a Chern-Simons theory in 2+1 dimensions on a manifold with boundary. In such a field theory, gauge invariance implies the presence of anomalous chiral modes localized on the edge of the sample. We assume a simple boundary structure, i.e., the absence of a reconstructed edge. For the bulk, we consider a multiply connected planar geometry. We study tunneling processes between two boundary components of the fluid and calculate the tunneling current to lowest order in perturbation theory as a function of dc bias voltage. Particular attention is paid to the special cases when the edge modes propagate at the same speed, and when they exhibit two significantly distinct propagation speeds. We distinguish between two "geometries" of interference contours corresponding to the (electronic) Fabry-Perot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers, respectively. We find that the interference term in the current is absent when exactly one hole in the fluid corresponding to one of the two edge components involved in the tunneling processes lies inside the interference contour (i.e., in the case of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer). We analyze the dependence of the tunneling current on the state of the quantum Hall fluid and on the external magnetic flux through the sample.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5012

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zbMATH Keywords

chiral anomalytopological field theoryCherndissipationless charge transportedge current interferometryfractional quantum Hall effectSimons action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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