The Higgs model for anyons and Liouville action: Chaotic spectrum, energy gap and exclusion principle

TL;DR

This paper explores the geometric and spectral properties of anyons using the Weil-Petersson metric, revealing chaotic spectra, energy gaps, and a geometric interpretation of the exclusion principle through moduli space analysis.

Contribution

It establishes a connection between anyon spectra, moduli space geometry, and the Weil-Petersson metric, providing new insights into their chaotic behavior and energy gaps.

Findings

Anyon spectrum is chaotic for n≥3.

Energy spectrum has a gap due to curvature bounds.

Exclusion principle has a geometric interpretation.

Abstract

Geodesic completness and self-adjointness imply that the Hamiltonian for anyons is the Laplacian with respect to the Weil-Petersson metric. This metric is complete on the Deligne-Mumford compactification of moduli (configuration) space. The structure of this compactification fixes the possible anyon configurations. This allows us to identify anyons with singularities (elliptic points with ramification $q^{-1}$) in the Poincar\'e metric implying that anyon spectrum is chaotic for $n\ge 3$. Furthermore, the bound on the holomorphic sectional curvature of moduli spaces implies a gap in the energy spectrum. For $q=0$ (punctures) anyons are infinitely separated in the Poincar\'e metric (hard-core). This indicates that the exclusion principle has a geometrical intepretation. Finally we give the differential equation satisfied by the generating function for volumes of the configuration space of anyons.