Towards the fractional quantum Hall effect: a noncommutative geometry perspective Export

@misc{citeulike:466569, abstract = {In this paper we give a survey of some models of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect based on noncommutative geometry. We begin by recalling some classical geometry of electrons in solids and the passage to noncommutative geometry produced by the presence of a magnetic field. We recall how one can obtain this way a single electron model of the integer quantum Hall effect. While in the case of the integer quantum Hall effect the underlying geometry is Euclidean, we then discuss a model of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which is based on hyperbolic geometry simulating the multi-electron interactions. We derive the fractional values of the Hall conductance as integer multiples of orbifold Euler characteristics. We compare the results with experimental data.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Marcolli, Matilde and Mathai, Varghese}, citeulike-article-id = {466569}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502356}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0502356}, day = {14}, eprint = {cond-mat/0502356}, keywords = {fractional, hall\_effect, ncg, quantum}, month = {Jun}, posted-at = {2006-01-17 01:39:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Towards the fractional quantum Hall effect: a noncommutative geometry perspective}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502356}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:466569 L3 - citeulike-article-id:466569 N2 - In this paper we give a survey of some models of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect based on noncommutative geometry. We begin by recalling some classical geometry of electrons in solids and the passage to noncommutative geometry produced by the presence of a magnetic field. We recall how one can obtain this way a single electron model of the integer quantum Hall effect. While in the case of the integer quantum Hall effect the underlying geometry is Euclidean, we then discuss a model of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which is based on hyperbolic geometry simulating the multi-electron interactions. We derive the fractional values of the Hall conductance as integer multiples of orbifold Euler characteristics. We compare the results with experimental data. TI - Towards the fractional quantum Hall effect: a noncommutative geometry perspective KW - fractional KW - hall_effect KW - ncg KW - quantum AU - Marcolli, Matilde AU - Mathai, Varghese PY - 2005/Jun/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502356 ER -