Quasiparticle spin from adiabatic transport in quantum Hall trial wavefunctions

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dc.creatorRead, N.
dc.date2008-07-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:51:43Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:51:43Z
dc.descriptionQuasiparticle spin (in the spacetime sense) couples to curvature of space. Here this fact is used to calculate the spin of quasiholes in trial quantum Hall states by adiabatically dragging them around on a sphere, for trial states given by conformal blocks in some conformal field theory. The spin is found to agree with the conformal weight of the corresponding field. The result completes a recent argument that constructions using blocks from non-unitary theories that contain negative quantum dimensions produce contradictions that prevent them from describing topological (gapped) phases of matter.
dc.description5 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3107
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3107
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/165348
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.titleQuasiparticle spin from adiabatic transport in quantum Hall trial wavefunctions
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