Dolan, Brian P. (2006) N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and the Quantum Hall Effect. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 21 (23/24). pp. 4807-4822. ISSN 0217-751X
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Abstract
It is argued that there are strong similarities between the infra-red
physics of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills and that of the quantum
Hall effect, both systems exhibit a hierarchy of vacua with a sub-group
of the modular group mapping between them. The coupling flow for
pure SU(2) N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills in 4-dimensions is reexamined
and an earlier suggestion in the literature, that was singular
at strong coupling, is modified to a form that is well behaved at both
weak and strong coupling and describes the crossover in an analytic
fashion. Similarities between the phase diagram and the flow of SUSY
Yang-Mills and that of the quantum Hall effect are then described,
with the Hall conductivity in the latter playing the role of the θ-
parameter in the former. Hall plateaux, with odd denominator filling
fractions, are analogous to fixed points at strong coupling in N=2
SUSY Yang-Mills, where the massless degrees of freedom carry an
odd monopole charge.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Preprint of an article submitted for consideration in the International Journal of Modern Physics A ©2006 [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company] [http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpa/] |
Keywords: | duality; supersymmetry; Yang-Mills theory; quantum Hall effect; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematical Physics |
Item ID: | 2836 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Brian Dolan |
Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2011 16:38 |
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Modern Physics A |
Publisher: | World Scientific |
Refereed: | No |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/2836 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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