The Electromagnetic Interactions of Electrons in the Lowest Landau Level
The Electromagnetic Interactions of Electrons in the Lowest Landau Level
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最低朗道能级中电子的电磁相互作用
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1993
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通讯作者:
R. Sakita
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R. Sakita
Abstract Starting from a system of planar electrons in a strong magnetic field normal to the plane and interacting with perturbing electromagnetic fields, an effective Lagrangian for the fermions in the lowest Landau level (LLL) has been derived. By choosing a suitable background electrostatic potential, an incompressible droplet of these electrons is constructed. The gauge invariant effective Lagrangian for the electrons in the LLL is shown to split naturally into a (1 + 1)-dimensional Lagrangian for the electrons on the surface of the droplet and into a (2 + 1)-dimensional gauge-field Lagrangian representing the contribution of the interior of the droplet. Upon bosonization, the former represents the surface vibrations of the droplet. Individually neither of these two actions is gauge invariant, but it is shown that the gauge dependences from the two pieces cancel out. This demonstrates that the edge degrees of freedom are essential for maintaining gauge invariance.