An Exactly Solvable Model for Strongly Interacting Electrons in a Magnetic Field

TL;DR

This paper introduces an exactly solvable model for strongly interacting two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field, revealing fractional quantum Hall states at specific filling factors with topological properties similar to Coulomb ground states.

Contribution

The authors develop a novel exactly solvable model with infinitely strong short-range interactions, enabling analysis of fractional quantum Hall states beyond the lowest Landau level.

Findings

Exact solutions for ground and excited states at arbitrary filling factors below 1/2p.

Fractional quantum Hall states at fractions n/(2pn+1) with topological similarities to Coulomb states.

Demonstration of edge physics and fractional charge properties in the model.

Abstract

States of strongly interacting particles are of fundamental interest in physics, and can produce exotic emergent phenomena and topological structures. We consider here two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field, and, departing from the standard practice of restricting to the lowest LL, introduce a model short-range interaction that is infinitely strong compared to the cyclotron energy. We demonstrate that this model lends itself to an exact solution for the ground as well as excited states at arbitrary filling factors $\nu<1/2p$ and produces a fractional quantum Hall effect at fractions of the form $\nu=n/(2pn+ 1)$, where n and p are integers. The fractional quantum Hall states of our model share many topological properties with the corresponding Coulomb ground states in the lowest Landau level, such as the edge physics and the fractional charge of the excitations.