Fractional Quantum Numbers, Complex Orbifolds and Noncommutative Geometry

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC0B8CMaRDI QIDQ6338685arXivFDO

Authors Varghese Mathai, Graeme Wilkin

Publication date 14 April 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: This paper studies the conductance on the universal homology covering space $Z$ of 2D orbifolds in a strong magnetic field, thereby removing the integrality constraint on the magnetic field in earlier works in the literature. We consider a natural Landau Hamiltonian on $Z$ and show that its low-lying spectrum consists of a finite number of isolated points. We calculate the von Neumann degree of the associated holomorphic spectral orbibundles when the magnetic field $B$ is large, and obtain fractional quantum numbers as the conductance.

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