Toward a theory of the integer quantum Hall transition: continuum limit of the Chalker-Coddington model

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1997-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9701024v3

J. Math. Phys. 38, 2007 (1997)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

25 pages, REVTEX, calculation of sigma_xx corrected

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.531921

An N-channel generalization of the network model of Chalker and Coddington is considered. The model for N = 1 is known to describe the critical behavior at the plateau transition in systems exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect. Using a recently discovered equality of integrals, the network model is transformed into a lattice field theory defined over Efetov's sigma model space with unitary symmetry. The transformation is exact for all N, no saddle-point approximation is made, and no massive modes have to be eliminated. The naive continuum limit of the lattice theory is shown to be a supersymmetric version of Pruisken's nonlinear sigma model with couplings sigma_xx = sigma_xy = N/2 at the symmetric point. It follows that the model for N = 2, which describes a spin degenerate Landau level and the random flux problem, is noncritical. On the basis of symmetry considerations and inspection of the Hamiltonian limit, a modified network model is formulated, which still lies in the quantum Hall universality class. The prospects for deformation to a Yang-Baxter integrable vertex model are briefly discussed.

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