Hall effect in noncommutative coordinates
Abstract
We consider electrons in uniform external magnetic and electric fields which move on a plane whose coordinates are noncommuting. Spectrum and eigenfunctions of the related Hamiltonian are obtained. We derive the electric current whose expectation value gives the Hall effect in terms of an effective magnetic field. We present a receipt to find the action which can be utilized in path integrals for noncommuting coordinates. In terms of this action we calculate the related Aharonov--Bohm phase and show that it also yields the same effective magnetic field. When magnetic field is strong enough this phase becomes independent of magnetic field. Measurement of it may give some hints on spatial noncommutativity. The noncommutativity parameter \theta can be tuned such that electrons moving in noncommutative coordinates are interpreted as either leading to the fractional quantum Hall effect or composite fermions in the usual coordinates.
- Publication:
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Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1504484
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0111267
- Bibcode:
- 2002JMP....43.4592D
- Keywords:
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- 73.43.Cd;
- 03.65.Ta;
- 12.20.Ds;
- 02.30.Cj;
- Theory and modeling;
- Foundations of quantum mechanics;
- measurement theory;
- Specific calculations;
- Measure and integration;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- 13 pages. Some references added