Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2001-04-02
Phys. Rev. B 65, 035307 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
9 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.65.035307
A mapping is developed between the quantum Hall plateau transition and two-dimensional self-interacting lattice polymers. This mapping is exact in the classical percolation limit of the plateau transition, and diffusive behavior at the critical energy is shown to be related to the critical exponents of a class of chiral polymers at the $\theta$-point. The exact critical exponents of the chiral polymer model on the honeycomb lattice are found, verifying that this model is in the same universality class as a previously solved model of polymers on the Manhattan lattice. The mapping is obtained by averaging analytically over the local random potentials in a previously studied lattice model for the classical plateau transition. This average generates a weight on chiral polymers associated with the classical localization length exponent $\nu = 4/3$. We discuss the differences between the classical and quantum transitions in the context of polymer models and use numerical results on higher-moment scaling laws at the quantum transition to constrain possible polymer descriptions. Some properties of the polymer models are verified by transfer matrix and Monte Carlo studies.
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