Renormalization group for network models of quantum Hall transitions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00097-4MaRDI QIDQ5960396zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Denis Bernard, André LeClair

Publication date 4 April 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0107318

zbMATH Keywords

all orders beta functionChalker-Coddington network modelcoset conformal field theoriesspin quantum Hall transitionVirasoro master equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: We analyze in detail the renormalization group flows which follow from the recently proposed all orders beta functions for the Chalker-Coddington network model. The flows in the physical regime reach a true singularity after a finite scale transformation. Other flows are regular and we identify the asymptotic directions. One direction is in the same universality class as the disordered XY model. The all orders beta function is computed for the network model of the spin Quantum Hall transition and the flows are shown to have similar properties. It is argued that fixed points of general current-current interactions in 2d should correspond to solutions of the Virasoro master equation. Based on this we identify two coset conformal field theories osp(2N|2N)_1 /u(1)_0 and osp(4N|4N)_1/su(2)_0 as possible fixed points and study the resulting multifractal properties. We also obtain a scaling relation between the typical amplitude exponent alpha_0 and the typical point contact conductance exponent X_t which is expected to hold when the density of states is constant.

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