Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1842566 Nuclear Physics B 2007 19 Pages PDF
Abstract
Using a group theory approach, we investigate the basic features of the Landau problem on the Bergman ball Bk. This can be done by considering a system of particles living on Bk in the presence of an uniform magnetic field B and realizing the ball as the coset space SU(k,1)/U(k). In quantizing the theory on Bk, we define the wavefunctions as the Wigner D-functions satisfying a set of suitable constraints. The corresponding Hamiltonian is mapped in terms of the right translation generators. In the lowest Landau level, we obtain the wavefunctions as the SU(k,1) coherent states. This are used to define the star product, density matrix and excitation potential in higher dimensions. With these ingredients, we construct a generalized effective Wess-Zumino-Witten action for the edge states and discuss their nature.
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