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Rotons in Anyon Superfluids

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Abstract

We compute the spectrum of excitations for anyon superfluids near statistical angle \pi beyond the massless Nambu-Goldstone boson of the superfluid. Modeling the system as fermions at non-zero density coupled to a U(1) Chern-Simons gauge field, we develope an effective theory via the technique of bosonization. The effective theory obtained this way contains an infinite tower of fields and is valid well beyond the cut-off for the effective field theory of the Nambu-Goldstone boson. It captures a much larger part of the spectrum, exhibiting multiple branches of gapped excitations as well as roton minima and maxima.

Presenters

  • Umang Mehta

    University of Chicago

Authors

  • Umang Mehta

    University of Chicago

  • Yi-Hsien Du

    University of Chicago

  • Dam Thanh Son

    Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Chicago, University of Chicago, Physics, Univeristy of Chicago