Laughlin's wave functions, Coulomb gases and expansions of the discriminant

Details Laughlin's wave functions, Coulomb gases and expansions of the discriminant Laughlin's wave functions, Coulomb gases and expansions of the discriminant

1994-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9401163v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. A9 (1994) 4257-4352

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

97 pages, using harvmac (with big option recommended) and epsf, 7 figures available upon request, Saclay preprint Spht 93/125

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In the context of the fractional quantum Hall effect, we investigate Laughlin's celebrated ansatz for the groud state wave function at fractional filling of the lowest Landau level. Interpreting its normalization in terms of a one component plasma, we find the effect of an additional quadrupolar field on the free energy, and derive estimates for the thermodynamically equivalent spherical plasma. In a second part, we present various methods for expanding the wave function in terms of Slater determinants, and obtain sum rules for the coefficients. We also address the apparently simpler question of counting the number of such Slater states using the theory of integral polytopes.

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