Heat equation approach to geometric changes of the torus Laughlin-state

ORAL

Abstract

We study the second quantized -or guiding center- description of the torus Laughlin state. Our main focus is the change of the guiding center degrees of freedom with the torus geometry, which we show to be generated by a two-body operator. We demonstrate that this operator can be used to evolve the full torus Laughlin state at given modular parameter $\tau$ from its simple (Slater-determinant) thin torus limit, thus giving rise to a new presentation of the torus Laughlin state in terms of its ``root partition'' and an exponential of a two-body operator. This operator therefore generates in particular the adiabatic evolution between Laughlin states on regular tori and the quasi-one-dimensional thin torus limit. We make contact with the recently introduced notion of a ``Hall viscosity'' for fractional quantum Hall states, to which our two-body operator is naturally related, and which serves as a demonstration of our method to generate the Laughlin state on the torus.

Authors

  • Zhenyu Zhou

    Washington University in St. Louis

  • Zohar Nussinov

    Washington University, Washington University, St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Alexander Seidel

    Washington University in St. Louis