Pfaffian Statistics through Adiabatic Transport in the 1D Coherent State Representation
Abstract
Recent work has shown that the low energy sector of certain quantum Hall states is adiabatically connected to simple charge-density-wave patterns that appear, e.g., when the system is deformed into a thin torus. Here it is shown that the patterns emerging in this limit already determine the non-Abelian statistics of the ν=1 Moore-Read state. Aside from the knowledge of these patterns, the method only relies on the principle of adiabatic continuity, the effectively noncommutative geometry in a strong magnetic field, and topological as well as locality arguments.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.196802
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0804.4691
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvL.101s6802S
- Keywords:
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- 73.43.Cd;
- 71.10.Pm;
- Theory and modeling;
- Fermions in reduced dimensions;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- Published version. Some references updated