The Fermion–Boson Transformation in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems
Document Type
Article
Department
Mathematics (HMC)
Publication Date
4-2001
Abstract
A Fermion to Boson transformation is accomplished by attaching to each Fermion a single flux quantum oriented opposite to the applied magnetic field. When the mean field approximation is made in the Haldane spherical geometry, the Fermion angular momentum l_F is replaced by l_B - l_F - 1/2(N-1). The set of allowed total angular momentum multiplets is identical in the two different pictures. The Fermion and Boson energy spectra in the presence of many body interactions are identical if and only if the pseudopotential is "harmonic" in form. However, similar low energy bands of states with Laughlin correlations occur in the two spectra if the interaction has short range. The transformation is used to clarify the relation between Boson and Fermion descriptions of the hierarchy of condensed fractional quantum Hall states.
Rights Information
© 2001 Elsevier
DOI
10.1016/S1386-9477(00)00293-9
Recommended Citation
Quinn, John J., Arkadius Wojs, Jennifer J. Quinn and Arthur T. Benjamin. "Fermion-Boson Transformation in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems." Physica E, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 701-708, April 2001.
