Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-01-15
Physics
Condensed Matter
6 pages, revtex, two figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.53.16420
Using the network model representation, it is shown that the edge states of finite-size integral quantum Hall liquid can be regarded as the edge states of an SU$(2N)$ open antiferromagnetic quantum spin chain in the $N \rightarrow 0$ limit. The structures of edge states in both cases of integer quantum Hall liquid and an SU$(2N)$ antiferromagnetic quantum spin chain are compared and the relations between them are pointed out. This correspondence is used to give qualitative arguments in favor of the recent results on two-dimensional electron systems coupled in layers with a large perpendicular magnetic field. In particular, it is shown that the absence of the localization in the two-dimensional chiral surface state of the integral quantum Hall liquid in the case of the finite-size coupled system can be explained by the absence of the gap in the excitation spectrum of an SU$(2N)$ ferromagnetic quantum spin chain in the $N \rightarrow 0$ limit.
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