A gas of anyons in a strong magnetic field: Second quantized formalism at finite temperature

O. Hudák

I. E. Aronov, Eduard N. Bogachek, Ilya V. Krive +1 more

Yajiang Hao, Yafei Song

Eduardo Fradkin

I consider a gas of ``free'' anyons with statistical parameter \ensuremath{\delta}, with hard cores, on a two-dimensional square lattice. Using a recently derived Jordan-Wigner transformation, I map this problem onto a gas of fermions on the same lattice coupled to a Chern-Simons gauge theory with coupling \ensuremath{\theta}=1/2\ensuremath{\delta}. At the semiclassical level, the system is found to be equivalent to a gas of fermions, with the same density, in an average effective magnetic field \ensuremath{\rho}/\ensuremath{\theta}. I consider the case in which an integer number of the Landau bands of the saddle-point problem are completely filled. If \ensuremath{\delta}=\ensuremath{\pi}/m and the density \ensuremath{\rho}=r/q, with m, r, and q integers, the system is a superfluid, provided that q is larger than twice the largest common factor of m and r. If q is even and the system is half filled, the state may be either a superfluid or a quantum Hall phase. For all other values of \ensuremath{\rho} and \ensuremath{\delta}, compatible with integer filling of the Landau bands, the system is in a quantum Hall phase. The dynamical stability of the superfluid state is ensured by the topological invariance of the quantized Hall conductance of the fermion problem. I find a close analogy between anyon superconductivity and the Schwinger mechanism. The effective Lagrangian for the low-energy modes coupled to the electromagnetic field is derived. The energies of fermion and flux states are logarithmically divergent, but finite for the anyon state. The system has flux quantization, a zero-temperature Hall effect with a quantized Hall conductance, Meissner effect, charged vortices, screening with induced magnetic fields for static charges, and different masses for the longitudinal and transverse components of the electromagnetic field.

W. I. Skrypnik

J.Y. Kim, Yun Soo Myung, S.H. Yi

We derive the second and third virial coefficients and the ground state energy shift for charged anyons within the Hartree-Fock approximation. A second quantization scheme at finite temperature is introduced for this calculation up to the second order and the vertex is composed of anyonic, point, constant as well as Coulomb interactions. The thermodynamic potential for the second order correlation diagram of Coulomb interaction leads to the logarithmic divergence (V ln V). Hence, we find the heat capacity and the correlation energy of anyons without Coulomb-Coulomb interaction. Finally, we discuss the magnetic-field-induced localization at low filling ν, including the Wigner crystal phase.