# Solvable models for neutral modes in fractional quantum Hall edges

## TL;DR

This paper presents exactly solvable models for fractional quantum Hall edges showing how impurity scattering can generate neutral modes, providing explicit properties and stability analysis of these modes in specific quantum Hall states.

## Contribution

It introduces a solvable model framework for neutral modes in fractional quantum Hall edges, deriving their properties and stability under impurity scattering.

## Key findings

- Neutral modes exist in the model and are explicitly characterized.
- Neutral modes remain stable at sufficiently strong impurity scattering.
- The models apply to Abelian fractional quantum Hall states like ν=2/3.

## Abstract

We describe solvable models that capture how impurity scattering in certain fractional quantum Hall edges can give rise to a neutral mode --- i.e. an edge mode that does not carry electric charge. These models consist of two counter-propagating chiral Luttinger liquids together with a collection of discrete impurity scatterers. Our main result is an exact solution of these models in the limit of infinitely strong impurity scattering. From this solution, we explicitly derive the existence of a neutral mode and we determine all of its microscopic properties including its velocity. We also study the stability of the neutral mode and show that it survives at finite but sufficiently strong scattering. Our results are applicable to a family of Abelian fractional quantum Hall states of which the $\nu = 2/3$ state is the most prominent example.