Solvable Lattice Hamiltonians with Fracitonal Hall Conductivity

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Abstract

We construct a class of lattice Hamiltonians -- both bosonic and fermionic ones -- that exhibit fractional Hall conductivity. These Hamiltonians, while not being exactly solvable, can be controllably solved in their low energy sectors, through a combination of perturbative and exact techniques. Our construction demonstrates a systematic way to circumvent the Kapustin-Fidkowski no-go theorem. More broadly, our work may shed light on the general study of the symmetry enriched topological phases which have gapless edges protected by symmetry.

Publication: Zhaoyu Han and Jing-Yuan Chen, Solvable Lattice Hamiltonians with Fractional Hall Conductivity, [2107.02817];
Zhaoyu Han and Jing-Yuan Chen, Fractional Hall Conductivity and Spin-Charge Structure from Controllably Solvable Lattice Hamiltonians, in preparation

Presenters

  • Jing-Yuan Chen

    Tsinghua University

Authors

  • Jing-Yuan Chen

    Tsinghua University

  • Zhaoyu Han

    Stanford University