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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Four anyons in a harmonic well

M. Sporre, J. J. M. Verbaarschot, Ismail Zahed A

Published Sep 1, 1992• 28 citations
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Abstract

We construct numerically the spectrum of four anyons in a harmonic potential. As a function of the statistical flux, the anyon spectrum interpolates continuously between bosons and fermions. We show that its generic structure follows from semiclassical arguments. The relation of these results to the spectrum of four anyons in a constant magnetic field is also discussed.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.46.5738

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We show that the low-lying spectrum of three noninteracting anyons in a harmonic potential can be qualitatively and quantitatively understood on the basis of a simple set of analytic wave functions. These wave functions are exact in both the boson and fermion limits and satisfy the anyone wave-function phase condition at all intermediate values of the statistical parameter 01. The resulting nonlinear spectrum agrees with those of exact numerical calculations to better than a few parts in a thousand.
The ground-state energy and wave function of many anyons in a harmonic oscillator potential is studied using perturbation theory from the fermionic and bosonic ends. As the number of anyons increases to infinity, the ground-state energy scales with the power 3/2. As the statistics parameter changes, there are repeated level crossings between states having different angular momenta. Hence the ground state is only piecewise continuous, and the number of pieces increases with the number of anyons. This is to be contrasted with the problem of interpolating statistics in one dimension where there are no level crossings in the ground state for any number of particles.
Intermediate statistics interpolating from Bose statistics to Fermi statistics are allowed in two dimensions. This is due to the particular topology of the two dimensional configuration space of identical particles, leading to non trivial braiding of particles around each other. One arrives at quantum many-body states with a multivalued phase factor, which encodes the any- onic nature of particle windings. Bosons and fermions appear as two limiting cases. Gauging away the phase leads to the so-called anyon model, where the charge of each particle interacts “à la Aharonov-Bohm” with the fluxes carried by the other particles. The multivaluedness of the wave function has been traded off for topological interactions between ordinary particles. An alternative Lagrangian formulation uses a topological Chern-Simons term in 2+1 dimensions. Taking into account the short distance repulsion between particles leads to an Hamiltonian well defined in perturbation theory, where all perturbative divergences have disappeared. Together with numerical and semi-classical studies, perturbation theory is a basic analytical tool at disposal to study the model, since finding the exact N-body spectrum seems out of reach (except in the 2-body case which is solvable, or for particular classes of N-body eigenstates which generalize some 2-body eigenstates). However, a simplification arises when the anyons are coupled to an external homogeneous magnetic field. In the case of a strong field, by projecting the system on its lowest Landau level (LLL, thus the LLL-anyon model), the anyon model becomes solvable, i.e., the classes of exact eigenstates alluded to above provide for a complete interpolation from the LLL-Bose spectrum to the LLL-Fermi spectrum. Being a solvable model allows for an explicit knowledge of the equation of state and of the mean occupation number in the LLL, which do interpolate from the Bose to the Fermi cases. It also provides for a combinatorial interpretation of LLL-anyon braiding statistics in terms of occupation of single particle states. The LLL-anyon model might also be relevant experimentally: a gas of electrons in a strong magnetic field is known to exhibit a quantized Hall conductance, leading to the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects. Haldane/exclusion statistics, introduced to describe FQHE edge excitations, is a priori different from anyon statistics, since it is not defined by braiding considerations, but rather by counting arguments in the space of available states. However, it has been shown to lead to the same kind of thermodynamics as the LLL-anyon thermodynamics (or, in other words, the LLL-anyon model is a microscopic quantum mechanical realization of Hal- dane’s statistics). The one dimensional Calogero model is also shown to have the same kind of thermodynamics as the LLL-anyons thermodynamics. This is not a coincidence: the LLL-anyon model and the Calogero model are intimately related, the latter being a particular limit of the former. Finally, on the purely combinatorial side, the minimal difference partition problem — partition of integers with minimal difference constraints on their parts — can also be mapped on an abstract exclusion statistics model with a constant one-body density of states, which is neither the LLL-anyon model nor the Calogero model. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.