Edge states and conformal boundary conditions in super spin chains and super sigma models

Details Edge states and conformal boundary conditions in super spin chains and super sigma models Edge states and conformal boundary conditions in super spin chains and super sigma models

2011-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/1101.4361v2

Nucl.Phys.B849:461-502,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

50 pages, 18 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.03.023

The sigma models on projective superspaces CP^{N+M-1|N} with topological angle theta=pi mod 2pi flow to non-unitary, logarithmic conformal field theories in the low-energy limit. In this paper, we determine the exact spectrum of these theories for all open boundary conditions preserving the full global symmetry of the model, generalizing recent work on the particular case M=0 [C. Candu et al, JHEP02(2010)015]. In the sigma model setting, these boundary conditions are associated with complex line bundles, and are labelled by an integer, related with the exact value of theta. Our approach relies on a spin chain regularization, where the boundary conditions now correspond to the introduction of additional edge states. The exact values of the exponents then follow from a lengthy algebraic analysis, a reformulation of the spin chain in terms of crossing and non-crossing loops (represented as a certain subalgebra of the Brauer algebra), and earlier results on the so-called one- and two-boundary Temperley Lieb algebras (also known as blob algebras). A remarkable result is that the exponents, in general, turn out to be irrational. The case M=1 has direct applications to the spin quantum Hall effect, which will be discussed in a sequel.

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