Effective field theory of fractional quantized Hall nematics

We present a Landau-Ginzburg theory for a fractional quantized Hall nematic state and the transition to it from an isotropic fractional quantum Hall state. This justifies Lifshitz-Chern-Simons theory—which is shown to be its dual—on a more microscopic basis and enables us to compute a ground-state w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mulligan, Michael, Nayak, Chetan, Kachru, Shamit
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69576