Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
2009-11-24
Physics
Mathematical Physics
36 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We consider two-dimensional Hamiltonians on a torus with finite range, finite strength interactions and a unique ground state with a non-vanishing spectral gap, and a conserved local charge, as defined precisely in the text. Using the local charge operators, we introduce a boundary magnetic flux in the horizontal and vertical direction and evolve the ground state quasi-adiabatically around a square of size one magnetic flux, in flux space. At the end of the evolution we obtain a trivial Berry phase, which we compare, via a method reminiscent of Stokes' Theorem, to the Berry phase obtained from an evolution around a small loop near the origin. As a result, we prove, without any averaging assumption, that the Hall conductance for interacting electron systems is quantized in integer multiples of e^2/h up to small corrections bounded by a function that decays as a stretched exponential in the linear size L. Finally, we discuss extensions to the fractional case under an additional topological order assumption to describe the multiple degenerate ground states.
Hastings Matthew B.
Michalakis Spyridon
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