Bimetric Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States

TL;DR

This paper develops a bimetric effective field theory for fractional quantum Hall states, capturing their topological features, collective excitations, and geometric properties, with calculations supporting its validity.

Contribution

It introduces a novel bimetric low-energy effective theory for FQH states, incorporating topological and geometric aspects, and computes key physical quantities.

Findings

Calculated the static structure factor up to order k^6.

Derived the GMP mode dispersion relation.

Connected FQH observables to geometric interpretations.

Abstract

We present a bimetric low-energy effective theory of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states that describes the topological properties and a gapped collective excitation, known as Girvin-Macdonald-Platzman (GMP) mode. The theory consist of a topological Chern-Simons action, coupled to a symmetric rank two tensor, and an action \`a la bimetric gravity, describing the gapped dynamics of the spin-$2$ GMP mode. The theory is formulated in curved ambient space and is spatially covariant, which allows to restrict the form of the effective action and the values of phenomenological coefficients. Using the bimetric theory we calculate the projected static structure factor up to the $k^6$ order in the momentum expansion. To provide further support for the theory, we derive the long wave limit of the GMP algebra, the dispersion relation of the GMP mode, and the Hall viscosity of FQH states. We also comment on the possible applications to fractional Chern insulators, where closely related structures arise. Finally, it is shown that the familiar FQH observables acquire a curious geometric interpretation within the bimetric formalism.