Non-renormalization of the fractional quantum Hall conductivity by interactions

M. Selch, M. A. Zubkov, Souvik Pramanik, M. Lewkowicz

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Abstract

We investigate the theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect (QHE) proposed a long time ago by Lopez and Fradkin (1991) to describe the principal Jain series. The magnetic fluxes of the statistical gauge field attached to electrons remain at rest in the reference frame moving together with the electron liquid. In the laboratory reference frame the electric field of the statistical gauge field forms and screens the external electric field. The fractional QHE conductivity appears as a consequence of this screening already on the mean field theory level. We consider a relativistic extension of the model, and propose an alternative description of the fractional QHE based on macroscopic motion of the electron liquid within the Zubarev statistical operator approach. It is this macroscopic motion of electrons which in this pattern gives rise to the fractional QHE. Within this approach we propose the proof to all orders of perturbation theory that the interaction corrections cannot change the above mentioned mean field theory result for the QHE conductivity.

Original languageEnglish
Article number170202
JournalAnnals of Physics
Volume482
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2025

Keywords

  • Chern–Simons theory
  • Fermionic field theory of fractional quantum Hall effect
  • Fractional quantum Hall effect
  • Quantum Hall effect
  • Wigner–Weyl calculus

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