Filling the Bose sea: Symmetric quantum Hall edge states and affine characters

Eddy Ardonne, Rinat Kedem, Michael Stone

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Abstract

We explore the structure of the bosonic analogues of the k-clustered 'parafermion' quantum Hall states. We show how the many-boson wavefunctions of k-clustered quantum Hall droplets appear naturally as matrix elements of ladder operators in integrable representations of the affine Lie algebra su(2) k. Using results of Feigin and Stoyanovsky, we count the dimensions of spaces of symmetric polynomials with given k-clustering properties and show that as the droplet size grows the partition function of its edge excitations evolves into the character of the representation. This confirms that the Hilbert space of edge states coincides with the representation space of the su(2)k edge-current algebra. We also show that a spin-singlet, two-component k-clustered boson fluid is similarly related to integrable representations of su(3). Parafermions are not necessary for these constructions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)617-636
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
Volume38
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 21 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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