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arXiv:1007.1732 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Partition functions of non-Abelian quantum Hall states

Andrea Cappelli A, Giovanni Viola

Published Jan 20, 2011• 22 citations
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Abstract

Partition functions of edge excitations are obtained for non-Abelian Hall states in the second Landau level, such as the anti-Read–Rezayi state, the Bonderson–Slingerland hierarchy and the Wen non-Abelian fluid, as well as for the non-Abelian spin-singlet state. The derivation is straightforward and unique starting from the non-Abelian conformal field theory data and solving the modular invariance conditions. The partition functions provide a complete account of the excitation spectrum and are used to describe experiments of Coulomb blockade and thermopower.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/44/7/075401

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We study the non-Abelian statistics of quasiparticles in the Ising-type quantum Hall states which are likely candidates to explain the observed Hall conductivity plateaus in the second Landau level, most notably the one at filling fraction ν = 5/2.We complete the program started in V. Gurarie and C. Nayak, [Nucl. Phys. B 506, 685 (1997)].and show that the degenerate four-quasihole and six-quasihole wave functions of the Moore-Read Pfaffian state are orthogonal with equal constant norms in the basis given by conformal blocks in a c = 1 + 1 2 conformal field theory.As a consequence, this proves that the non-Abelian statistics of the excitations in this state are given by the explicit analytic continuation of these wave functions.Our proof is based on a plasma analogy derived from the Coulomb gas construction of Ising model correlation functions involving both order and (at most two) disorder operators.We show how this computation also determines the non-Abelian statistics of collections of more than six quasiholes and give an explicit expression for the corresponding conformal block-derived wave functions for an arbitrary number of quasiholes.Our method also applies to the anti-Pfaffian wave function and to Bonderson-Slingerland hierarchy states constructed over the Moore-Read and anti-Pfaffian states.
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