Tuesday 16 January 2018

research level - The bijective correspondence between a symmetric polynomial and edge excitation of the fractional quantum hall droplet


I am recently reading Xiao-Gang Wen's paper (http://dao.mit.edu/~wen/pub/edgere.pdf) on edge excitation for fractional quantum hall effect. On page 25, he claimed that it is easy to show that there exist a bijective correspondence between a symmetric polynomial and edge excitation of the fractional quantum hall droplet. As we all known that Laughlin state is a zero-energy eigenstate for Haldane pseudopotential. And it is easy to see that if a symmetric polynomial times the Laughlin wave function, then that increases the relative angular momentum for particles, thus that wave function is still a zero-energy eigenstate for Haldane pseudopotential. However, Wen claimed that the reverse also holds, but I am not quite convinced by his argument in his paper. Does anybody know how to rigorously show that the reverse is also true, that is every zero-energy eigenstate is of the form of a symmetric polynomial times the Laughlin wave function?



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Looks like I have to answer this question :-)


Let me first answer the math question: Every zero-energy eigenstate is of the form of a symmetric polynomial times the Laughlin wave function.


To be concrete, let us consider an $N$ boson system, with delta-potential interaction $V=g\sum \delta(z_i-z_j)$ where $z_i$ is a complex number describing the position of the $i^{th}$ boson. The zero energy state $\Psi(z_1,...,z_N)$ satisfies $\Psi(z_1,...,z_N)=P(z_1,...,z_N)exp(-\sum_i |z_i|^2/4)$ where $P$ is a symmetric polynomial that satisfy $\int \prod_i d^2 z_i \ \Psi(z_1,...,z_N)^\dagger V \Psi(z_1,...,z_N) =0$.


Now it is clear that all the zero energy state are given by symmetric polynomial that satisfy $P(z_1,...,z_N)=0$ if any pair of bosons coincide $z_i=z_j$. For symmetric polynomial this implies that $P(z_1,...,z_N) \sim (z_i-z_j)^2$ when $z_i$ is near $z_j$. The Laughline wave function $P_0=\prod_{iarXiv:1203.3268.


However, a physically more relevant math question is: Every energy eigenstate below a certain finite energy gap $\Delta$ is of the form of a symmetric polynomial times the Laughlin wave function for any number $N$ of particles. (Here $\Delta$ does not depend on $N$.)



We only have numerical evidences that the above statement is true, but no proof.


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