Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
1997-11-21
Phys.Rev. B58 (1998) 15717
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
33 pages, LaTeX+epsf, 2 eps figures. Expanded version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.58.15717
We present a simple approach to calculate the degeneracy and the structure of the ground states of non-abelian quantum Hall (QH) liquids on the torus. Our approach can be applied to any QH liquids (abelian or non-abelian) obtained from the parton construction. We explain our approach by studying a series of examples of increasing complexity. When the effective theory of a non-abelian QH liquid is a non-abelian Chern-Simons (CS) theory, our approach reproduces the well known results for the ground state degeneracy of the CS theory. However, our approach also apply to non-abelian QH liquids whose effective theories are not known and which cannot be written as a non-abelian CS theory. We find that the ground states on a torus of all non-abelian QH liquids obtained from the parton construction can be described by points on a lattice inside a "folded unit cell." The folding is generated by reflection, rotations, etc. Thus the ground state structures on the torus described by the ``folded unit cells'' provide a way to (at least partially) classify non-abelian QH liquids obtained from the parton construction.
Wen Xiao Gang
Zee Anthony
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