Quantum Hall edges beyond the plasma analogy

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Autori principali: Moosavi, Per, Oblak, Blagoje, Lapierre, Bastien, Estienne, Benoit, Stéphan, Jean-Marie
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author Moosavi, Per
Oblak, Blagoje
Lapierre, Bastien
Estienne, Benoit
Stéphan, Jean-Marie
author_facet Moosavi, Per
Oblak, Blagoje
Lapierre, Bastien
Estienne, Benoit
Stéphan, Jean-Marie
contents We demonstrate that the widely used plasma analogy is unreliable at predicting edge properties of quantum Hall states. This discrepancy arises from a fundamental difference between quantum Hall droplets and plasmas (Coulomb gases): the former are incompressible liquids subject to area-preserving deformations, while the latter are governed by electrostatics and thus involve conformal transformations. Consequently, the plasma analogy fails at the edge, except in fine-tuned geometries, as it does not account for the emergent local edge velocity. We quantitatively show how the analogy's failure affects physical quantities, such as fluctuations of local observables and absorption rates in microwave spectroscopy, measurable in both solid-state experiments and quantum simulators.
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spellingShingle Quantum Hall edges beyond the plasma analogy
Moosavi, Per
Oblak, Blagoje
Lapierre, Bastien
Estienne, Benoit
Stéphan, Jean-Marie
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
We demonstrate that the widely used plasma analogy is unreliable at predicting edge properties of quantum Hall states. This discrepancy arises from a fundamental difference between quantum Hall droplets and plasmas (Coulomb gases): the former are incompressible liquids subject to area-preserving deformations, while the latter are governed by electrostatics and thus involve conformal transformations. Consequently, the plasma analogy fails at the edge, except in fine-tuned geometries, as it does not account for the emergent local edge velocity. We quantitatively show how the analogy's failure affects physical quantities, such as fluctuations of local observables and absorption rates in microwave spectroscopy, measurable in both solid-state experiments and quantum simulators.
title Quantum Hall edges beyond the plasma analogy
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19013