Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2002-09-12
Nucl.Phys. B661 (2003) 514-532
Physics
Condensed Matter
13 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00345-6
It is known that the localization length scaling of noninteracting electrons near the quantum Hall plateau transition can be described in a theory of the bosonic density operators, with no reference to the underlying fermions. The resulting ``Liouvillian'' theory has a $U(1|1)$ global supersymmetry as well as a hierarchy of geometric conservation laws related to the noncommutative geometry of the lowest Landau level (LLL). Approximations to the Liouvillian theory contain quite different physics from standard approximations to the underlying fermionic theory. Mean-field and large-N generalizations of the Liouvillian are shown to describe problems of noninteracting bosons that enlarge the $U(1|1)$ supersymmetry to $U(1|1) \times SO(N)$ or $U(1|1) \times SU(N)$. These noninteracting bosonic problems are studied numerically for $2 \leq N \leq 8$ by Monte Carlo simulation and compared to the original N=1 Liouvillian theory. The $N>1$ generalizations preserve the first two of the hierarchy of geometric conservation laws, leading to logarithmic corrections at order 1/N to the diffusive large-N limit, but do not preserve the remaining conservation laws. The emergence of nontrivial scaling at the plateau transition, in the Liouvillian approach, is shown to depend sensitively on the unusual geometry of Landau levels.
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