Quantum Hall Bilayers and the Chiral Sine-Gordon Equation
| dc.creator | Naud, J. D. | |
| dc.creator | Pryadko, Leonid P. | |
| dc.creator | Sondhi, S. L. | |
| dc.date | 1999-08-13 | |
| dc.date | 1999-12-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:14:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:14:13Z | |
| dc.description | The edge state theory of a class of symmetric double-layer quantum Hall systems with interlayer electron tunneling reduces to the sum of a free field theory and a field theory of a chiral Bose field with a self-interaction of the sine-Gordon form. We argue that the perturbative renormalization group flow of this chiral sine-Gordon theory is distinct from the standard (non-chiral) sine-Gordon theory, contrary to a previous assertion by Renn, and that the theory is manifestly sensible only at a discrete set of values of the inverse period of the cosine interaction (beta). We obtain exact solutions for the spectra and correlation functions of the chiral sine-Gordon theory at the two values of beta at which the electron tunneling in bilayers is not irrelevant. Of these, the marginal case (beta^2=4) is of greatest interest: the spectrum of the interacting theory is that of two Majorana fermions with different, dynamically generated, velocities. For the experimentally observed bilayer 331 state at filling factor 1/2, this implies the trifurcation of electrons added to the edge. We also present a method for fermionizing the theory at the discrete points (integer beta^2) by the introduction of auxiliary degrees of freedom that could prove useful in other problems involving quantum Hall multilayers. | |
| dc.description | revtex, epsf; 39 p., 4 figs; corrections to three equations; two-up postscript at http://www.sns.ias.edu/~leonid/csg-2up.ps | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908188 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908188 | |
| dc.identifier | Nucl.Phys. B565 (2000) 572-610 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00658-6 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/29591 | |
| dc.subject | Strongly Correlated Electrons | |
| dc.subject | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Quantum Hall Bilayers and the Chiral Sine-Gordon Equation | |
| dc.type | text |