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在分数Chern绝缘体之间的平台过渡处出现的多味QED3:在石墨烯异质结构中的应用

Emergent Multi-flavor QED3 at the Plateau Transition between Fractional Chern Insulators: Applications to graphene heterostructures

Jong Yeon Lee, Chong Wang, Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath, Yin-Chen He

摘要:

最近在石墨烯异质结构中的实验已经观察到陈绝缘体-通过周期性衬底电势使整数和分数量子霍尔态成为可能。在这里,我们从理论上研究了不同的陈绝缘体之间的竞争,这可以通过周期势的振幅调谐,导致一个新的QED $_3$ -陈-西蒙斯理论描述的量子临界点的家庭。在这些临界点上,狄拉克费米子的$N_f$类通过陈-西蒙斯水平$K$的涌现U $(1)$规范理论相互作用,并且值得注意的是,整个家族(包括任何$N_f$或$K$)可以在外部磁场的特定值下实现。粒子-空穴共轭Jain态之间的跃迁实现了“纯”QED $_3$,其中多种口味的狄拉克费米子与Maxwell U $(1)$规范场相互作用。临界点的多味性质导致涌现的SU $(N_f)$对称性。具体而言,在从$ν=$ 1/3到2/3量子霍尔态的跃迁处,出现的SU(3)对称性预测了具有增强的双折射率的电荷密度波的八位组,这通过适用于石墨烯异质结构的微观模型的DMRG数值模拟来验证。我们提出了陈氏绝缘体的实验,可以解决2+1维共形场论研究中的开放问题,并测试最近的对偶启发的示意图。

英文摘要:

Recent experiments in graphene heterostructures have observed Chern insulators - integer and fractional Quantum Hall states made possible by a periodic substrate potential. Here we study theoretically the competition between different Chern insulators, which can be tuned by the amplitude of the periodic potential, leads to a new family of quantum critical points described by QED$_3$-Chern-Simons theory. At these critical points, $N_f$ flavors of Dirac fermions interact through an emergent U$(1)$ gauge theory at Chern-Simons level $K$, and remarkably, the entire family (with any $N_f$ or $K$) can be realized at special values of the external magnetic field. Transitions between particle-hole conjugate Jain states realize "pure" QED$_3$ in which multiple flavors of Dirac fermion interact with a Maxwell U$(1)$ gauge field. The multi-flavor nature of the critical point leads to an emergent SU$(N_f)$ symmetry. Specifically, at the transition from a $ν=$1/3 to 2/3 quantum Hall state, the emergent SU(3) symmetry predicts an octet of charge density waves with enhanced susceptibilities, which is verified by DMRG numerical simulations on microscopic models applicable to graphene heterostructures. We propose experiments on Chern insulators that could resolve open questions in the study of 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories and test recent duality inspired conjectures.

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