Quantum Geometry, Exclusion Statistics, and the Geometry of “Flux Attachment” in 2D Landau levels
“Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Physics and Role of Fermionic Exchange Symmetry” : workshop Pauli2016 on Oxford University, April 12-15 2016
- F. Duncan M. Haldane
Princeton University
The degenerate partially-filled 2D Landau level is a remarkable environment in which kinetic energy is replaced by "quantum geometry” (or an uncertainty principle) that quantizes the space occupied by the electrons quite differently from the atomic-scale quantization by a periodic arrangement of atoms. In this arena, when the short-range part of the Coulomb interaction dominates, it can lead to “flux attachment”, where a particle (or cluster of particles) exclusively occupies a quantized region of space. This principle underlies both the incompressible fractional quantum Hall fluids and the composite-fermion Fermi liquid states that occur in such systems.