N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and the Quantum Hall Effect

Details N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and the Quantum Hall Effect N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills and the Quantum Hall Effect

2005-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0505138v2

Int.J.Mod.Phys. A21 (2006) 4807-4822

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

14 pages, 5 figures, typeset in LaTeX, notation changed slightly, references added

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X06033891

It is argued that there are strong similarities between the infra-red physics of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills and that of the quantum Hall effect, both systems exhibit a hierarchy of vacua with a sub-group of the modular group mapping between them. The scaling flow for pure SU(2) N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills in 4-dimensions is re-examined and an earlier suggestion in the literature, that was singular at strong coupling, is modified to a form that is well behaved at both weak and strong coupling and describes the crossover in an analytic fashion. Similarities between the phase diagram and the flow of SUSY Yang-Mills and that of the quantum Hall effect are then described, with the Hall conductivity in the latter playing the role of the theta-parameter in the former. Hall plateaux, with odd denominator filling fractions, are analogous to fixed points at strong coupling in N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills, where the massless degrees of freedom carry an odd monopole charge.

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