Multipole expansion in the quantum hall effect

Abstract

Abstract

The effective action for low-energy excitations of Laughlin's states is obtained by systematic expansion in inverse powers of the magnetic field. It is based on the W- infinity symmetry of quantum incompressible fluids and the associated higher-spin fields. Besides reproducing the Wen and Wen-Zee actions and the Hall viscosity, this approach further indicates that the low-energy excitations are extended objects with dipolar and multipolar moments.

Published for SISSA by Springer Received: December 28, 2015 Accepted: February 26, 2016

Published: March 15, 2016

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Multipole expansion in the quantum hall e ect

Andrea Cappellia and Enrico Randellinia,b

aINFN, Sezione di Firenze,

Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy

bDipartimento di Fisica, Universit a di Firenze,

Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy

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Abstract: The e ective action for low-energy excitations of Laughlins states is obtained by systematic expansion in inverse powers of the magnetic eld. It is based on the W-in nity symmetry of quantum incompressible uids and the associated higher-spin elds. Besides reproducing the Wen and Wen-Zee actions and the Hall viscosity, this approach further indicates that the low-energy excitations are extended objects with dipolar and multipolar moments.

Keywords: Conformal and W Symmetry, Field Theories in Lower Dimensions, Topological States of Matter

ArXiv ePrint: 1512.02147

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Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 The Wen-Zee e ective action 3

3 W1 symmetry and multipole expansion 8

3.1 Quantum area-preserving di eomorphisms 83.2 Higher spin elds 113.3 The e ective theory to second order 123.3.1 Coupling to the spatial metric 133.3.2 The Wen-Zee action rederived 143.4 Universality and other remarks 143.5 The third-order term 16

4 The dipole picture 17

5 Conclusions 19

A Curved space formulas 20

1 Introduction

Many authors have recently reconsidered the Laughlin theory of the quantum Hall incompressible uid [1] aiming at understanding it more deeply and obtaining further universal properties, often related to geometry. The system has been considered on spatial metric backgrounds for studying the heat transport [2{4] and the response of the uid to strain. In particular, the Hall viscosity has been identi ed as a new universal quantity describing the non-dissipative transport [5{8].

Some authors have also been developing physical models of the Hall uid that go beyond the established picture of Jains composite fermion. Haldane and collaborators have considered the response of the Laughlin state to spatial inhomogeneities (such as lattice e ects and impurities) and have introduced an internal metric degree of freedom, that suggests the existence of dipolar e ects [9{12]. Wiegmann and collaborators have developed an hydrodynamic approach describing the motion of a uid of electrons as well as that of vortex centers [13, 14].

In the study of the quantum Hall system, the low-energy e ective action has been a very useful tool to describe and parameterize physical e ects, and to discuss the universal features. Besides the well-known Chern-Simons term leading to the Hall current, the coupling to gravity was introduced by Frohlich and collaborators [15] and by Wen and

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Zee [16]. The resulting Wen-Zee action describes the Hall viscosity and other e ects in term of the parameter

s, corresponding to an intrinsic angular momentum of the low-energy excitations. This quantity, independent of the relativistic spin, suggests a spatially extended structure of excitations. The predictions of the Wen-Zee action have been checked by the microscopic theory of electrons in Landau levels (in the case of integer Hall e ect [17]) and corrections and improvements have been obtained [18, 19]. Further features have been derived under the assumption of local Galilean invariance of the e ective theory [20{27].

In this paper, we rederive the Wen-Zee action by using a di erent approach that employs the symmetry of Laughlin incompressible uids under quantum area-preserving diffeomorphism (W1 symmetry) [28, 29]. The consequences of this symmetry on the dynamics

of edge excitations have been extensively analyzed [30{32]; in particular, the corresponding conformal eld theories have been obtained, the so-called W1 minimal models, and shown

to characterize the Jain hierarchy of Hall states [33{35]. Regarding the bulk excitations, the W1 symmetry and the associated e ective theory have not been developed, were it

not for the original studies by Sakita and collaborators [36{38] and the classic paper [39]. Here, we study the bulk excitations generated by W1 transformations in the lowest

Landau level. We disentangle their inherent non-locality by using a power expansion in ([planckover2pi1]=B0)n, where B0 is the external magnetic eld. Each term of this expansion de nes an independent hydrodynamic eld of spin = 1; 2; [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] , that can be related to a multipole

amplitude of the extended structure of excitations. The rst term is just the Wen hydrodynamic gauge eld, leading to the the Chern-Simons action [40]. The next-to-leading term involves a traceless symmetric two-tensor eld, that is a kind of dipole moment. Its independent coupling to the metric background gives rise to the Wen-Zee action and other e ects found in the literature. The third-order term is also brie y analyzed. The structure of this expansion matches the non-relativistic limit of the theory of higher-spin elds in (2 + 1) dimensions and the associated Chern-Simons actions developed in the refs. [41{43].

Our approach allows to discuss the universality of quantities related to transport and geometric responses. We argue that the general expression of the e ective action contains a series of universal coe cients, the rst of which is the Hall conductivity and the second is the Hall viscosity. We also identify other terms that are not universal because they correspond to local deformations of the bulk e ective action. In principle, all the universal quantities can be observed once we probe the system with appropriate background elds, but so far our analysis is complete to second order in [planckover2pi1]=B0 only.

We believe that the multipole expansion o ers the possibility of matching with the physical models of dipoles and vortices by Haldane and Wiegmann mentioned before [9{14]. Moreover, in our approach, the intrinsic angular momentum

s receives a

natural interpretation.

The paper is organized as follows. In section two, we recall the original derivation of the Wen-Zee action [16]. We spell out the major physical quantities obtained from this action, using formulas for curved space that are summarized in appendix A. In section three, we present the basic features of the W1 symmetry on the edge and in the bulk;

we set up the [planckover2pi1]=B0 expansion and introduce the associated higher-spin hydrodynamic elds. The coupling to the electromagnetic and gravity backgrounds of the rst two elds

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is shown to yield the Wen-Zee action. Next, the issue of universality of the e ective action is discussed. Then, the third-order eld is introduced and its contribution to the e ective action is found. In section four, the physical picture of dipoles is described heuristically. In the Conclusions, some developments of this approach are brie y mentioned.

2 The Wen-Zee e ective action

We consider the Laughlin state with lling fraction = 1=p and density 0 = B0=2

(setting [planckover2pi1] = c = e = 1 for convenience). The matter uctuations are described by the conserved current j, with vanishing ground state value, that is expressed in terms of the hydrodynamic U(1) gauge eld a ( = 0; 1; 2),

j = " @ a ; (2.1)

where " is the antisymmetric symbol, "012 = 1. The leading low-energy dynamics for this gauge eld compatible with the symmetries of the problem is given the Chern-Simons term, leading to the e ective action [40]:

S[a; A] = Z

0A0 +

Z

1

2 ada + jA : (2.2)

In this equation, we introduced the coupling to the external electromagnetic eld A, we

included the static contribution and used the short-hand notation of di erential forms, a = adx.

Integration of the hydrodynamic eld leads to the induced action Sind[A] S[A], that expresses the response of the system to the electromagnetic background,

S[A] =

4

Z

AdA; = 1

p: (2.3)

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Its variations yield the density and Hall current,

= S

A0 =

2 B =

2 (B0 + B(x)) ; (2.4)

2 "ijEj; (2.5)

where B and Ei are the magnetic and electric elds, respectively. The Chern-Simons

coupling constant in (2.2) has been identi ed as = =2. As is well-known [40], the Chern-Simons theory (2.2) describes local excitations of the a eld that possess fractional statistics with parameter = =p. Moreover, the action is not gauge invariant and a boundary term should be added; this is the (1 + 1) dimensional action of the chiral boson theory (chiral Luttinger liquid) that realizes the conformal eld theory of edge excitations.

The Wen-Zee action is obtained by coupling the hydrodynamic eld to a spatial time-dependent gravity background, as follows [15, 16]. The metric takes the form:

gij(t; xk) = eaiebj ab; i; j; k; a; b = 1; 2; (2.6)

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Ji = S

Ai =

also written in terms of the zweibein eai. Note that we do not introduce time and mixed components of the metric, g00 = g0i = 0, such that the resulting theory will only be covariant under time-independent reparameterizations. Actually, we shall nd non-covariant time-dependent e ects that are physically relevant. We also assume that the gravity background has vanishing torsion, such that the metric and zweibein descriptions are equivalent; in particular, the spin connection !ab and Levi-Civita connection ijk describe equivalent physical e ects. In appendix A, we summarize some useful formulas of covariant calculus.

The comoving coordinates are invariant under local O(2) rotations and the corresponding spin connection is an Abelian gauge eld, ! = !ab(e)"ab=2. The standard coupling of the spin connection to the spin current of the relativistic fermion in (2 + 1) dimension has the following non-relativistic limit (A,B=0,1,2):

!AB SAB = !AB

14 [ A; B] !

1

2!12

; (2.7)

namely, it reduces to the charge interaction. This result suggests to introduce the following coupling to gravity in the e ective action (2.2),

jA ! j (A +

s !) ; (2.8)

where

s is a free parameter measuring the intrinsic angular momentum of low-energy excitations. The resulting induced action, generalizing (2.3), reads [16]:

S[A; g] =

4

Z

AdA + 2 sAd! +

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3

1

2!12

s2 !d! : (2.9)

In this expression, the second term is usually referred as the Wen-Zee action, SWZ[A; g],

while the third part O( s2) is called gravitational Wen-Zee term, SGRWZ[g].

The e ective action (2.9) is the main quantity of our analysis in this work. The coupling to the spin connection (2.8) has been con rmed by the study of world lines of excitations in (2 + 1) dimensions [18]. Moreover, the correctness of the action (2.9) has been veri ed by integrating the microscopic theory of electrons in Landau levels, for integer [17]. These works have noted that there is a contribution from the measure of integration of the path integral over a; this is the framing (gravitational) anomaly of the Chern-Simons theory [19], and leads to an additional Wess-Zumino-Witten term in the e ective action. This yields a rede nition of the coe cient of SGRWZ,

s2 !

s2c=12, where c is the central

charge of the conformal theory on the boundary (i.e. c = 1 for Laughlin states). Note that the bar in

s, indicating the average over the contribution of several Landau levels, is not actually relevant for Laughlin states, such that

s2 =

s2 in the following discussion.

In a actual system, the e ective action (2.9) is accompanied by other non-geometrical terms that are local and gauge invariant and depends on the details of the microscopic Hamiltonian [17, 20]. These non-universal parts will not be considered here, while the issue of universality will be discussed later.

In the following, we review the physical consequences that can be obtained from the rst two terms in the action (2.9) and postpone the analysis of the gravitational part

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SGRWZ[g] to section 3.5. The Wen-Zee action involves three terms,

SWZ =

pg2 A0R + ij_

Ai!j + pg B !0 ; (2.10)

where we introduced the scalar curvature of the spatial metric and the total magnetic eld through the expressions (cf. appendix A):

R =

2

pg "ij@i!j ; B =

1

s 2

Z

Ad! =

s 2

Z

d3x

pg "ij@iAj : (2.11)

From the variation of the e ective action with respect to A0 we obtain a contribution to the density that is proportional to the scalar curvature; this is relevant when the system is put on a curved space, such as e.g. the sphere. Integrating the density over the surface, we nd that the total number of electrons is:

N = Z

B + s2R = N + s~ = N + S; (2.12)

where N is the number of magnetic uxes going through the surface and ~ is its Euler characteristic. This relation shows that on a curved space the number of electrons N and the number of ux quanta N are not simply related by N = N. Rather there is a sub-leading O(1) correction, called the shift S =

s~. For the sphere, this is S = 2 s; upon

comparing with the actual expression of the Laughlin wave function in this geometry, one obtains the value of the intrinsic angular momentum

s = 1=2 = p=2 [16].

The shift is another universal quantum number characterizing Hall states, besides Wens topological order [40], that depends on the topology of space. One simple way to compute

s is to consider the total angular momentum M of the ground state wavefunction for N electrons and use the following formula:

M = N

2 N =

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d2xpg =

Z

d2x pg

2

N2

s: (2.13)

The sub-leading O(N) term in this expression gives the intrinsic angular momentum

s of

excitations. For the n-th lled Landau level one nds

s = (2n 1)=2; in the lowest level,

for wavefunctions given by conformal eld theory, Read has obtained the general formula,

s = 1=2 + h , where h is the scale dimension of the conformal eld representing the neutral part of the electron excitation [6{8].

The induced Hall current obtained from the variation of the action (2.10) with respect to Ai reads:

Ji = 1 pg

S[A; g]

Ai =

2 N

Ej + s Ej(g) ; Ei(g) = @i!0 @0!i; (2.14)

and shows a correction given by the gravi-electric eld Ei(g).

The most important result of the Wen-Zee action is given by the purely gravitational response encoded in the third term of (2.10). For small uctuations around at space, gij = ij + gij, the metric represents the so called strain tensor of elasticity theory, gij =

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1 pg

2 ij

@iuj + @jui, where ui(x) is the local deformation [44]. In order to nd the response of the uid to strain, we should compute the induced stress tensor. To this e ect, we expand the Wen-Zee action for weak gravity and rewrite it explicitly in terms of the metric.

The relation between the metric and the zweibeins (2.6) can be approximated as follows. We choose a gauge for the local O(2) symmetry such that the zweibeins form a symmetric matrix. Then, to leading order in the uctuations we can write, gij =

eaj ai + eai aj = 2 eij, and express the zweibeins in terms of the metric. The spin connection components are then found to be (see appendix A):

!0 =

18"ik gij _

gkj; !j = 12"ki @i gkj; (2.15)

where the dot indicates the time derivative. Note that !0 and !i are quadratic and linear in the metric uctuations, respectively. Moreover, to linear order the spatial zweibein is proportional to the a ne connection,

!i = 12 i

1

2"jk j,ik; (2.16)

and the curvature reads:

R = ij @i j = @i@j ij@2

gij: (2.17)

Upon using these formulas, we approximate the Wen-Zee action to quadratic order in the uctuations of both gravity and electromagnetic backgrounds, and obtain:

SWZ =

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s 4

Z

d3x

B0

: (2.18)

From this expression, we can compute the induced stress tensor to leading order in the metric and for constant magnetic eld B(x) = B0, leading to the result:

Tij =

2 pg

A0R + ij

_

Ai j

4 ij gik _

gjk

S gij =

H

2 ( ik _

gkj + jk _

gki) ; (2.19)

with

sB04 : (2.20)The coe cient H is the Hall viscosity: it parameterizes the response to stirring the uid, that corresponds to an orthogonal non-dissipative force (see gure 1) [45]. Avron, Seiler and Zograf were the rst to discuss the Hall viscosity from the adiabatic response [5], followed by other authors [6{12, 46, 47]; in particular, the relation (2.20) between the Hall viscosity and

s has been shown to hold for general Hall uids [6{8].

Let us analyze the expression of the stress tensor (2.19). Being of rst order in time derivatives, it describes a non-covariant e ect, in agreement with the fact that the Wen-Zee action is only covariant under time-independent coordinate reparameterization and local frame rotations. At a given time t = 0 we can choose the conformal gauge for the metric, gij(0; x) = pg ij, and consider time-dependent coordinate changes, xi = ui(t; x), representing the deformations. These can be decomposed into conformal transformations and

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H = 0

s2 =

Figure 1. Illustration of the Hall viscosity: a counter-clockwise stirring of the uid in the bulk of

the droplet causes an orthogonal force (red arrows).

isometries (also called area-preserving di eomorphisms): the former maintain the metric diagonal and obey @iuj + @jui = ij @kuk; the latter keep its determinant constant and satisfy @kuk = 0.

The conformal transformations do not contribute to the stress tensor (2.19); the isome-tries generated by the scalar function w(t; x) yield:

Tij = H 2@i@j ij@2

w; xi = ui = "ij @jw(t; x) : (2.21)

Therefore, we have found that the orthogonal force is proportional to the shear induced in the uid by time-dependent area-preserving di eomorphisms.

The last e ect parameterized by

s that we mention in this section is a correction to the density and Hall current in presence of spatially varying electromagnetic backgrounds (in at space). This is given by [20]:

=

2

1 s + so2@2B0 + O @4B20 B(x); (2.22)

Ji = 2 "ij

s +

so 2

s has an additive non-universal correction

so that depends

on the value of the gyromagnetic factor in the microscopic Hamiltonian [17, 20, 48{50]. The results (2.22), (2.23) do not follow from the Wen-Zee action because they are of higher order in the derivative expansion, i.e. in the series (@2=B0)n involving the dimensionful parameter B0. They were obtained by an independent argument in ref. [20], and later deduced from the Wen-Zee action upon assuming local Galilean invariance [21{23]. Our results in this paper will not rely on the presence of this symmetry, and we refer to the works [20{25] for an analysis of its consequences.

The correction (2.22) describes an interesting property for the density pro le of Laughlin uids. Numerical and analytical studies of fractional Hall states have found a prominent

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_

1

@2

B0 + O

@4 B20

Ej

(x): (2.23)

In these equations, the coe cient

Figure 2. Numerical density pro le of the droplet for the N = 200 electrons Laughlin wavefunction,

labeled by the value of p for = 1=p, from ref. [52] (the density is normalized to one in the bulk).

peak, or overshoot, at the edge (see gure 2) [51, 52]. This is in contrast with the integer Hall case, where the pro le is monotonically decreasing. Let us consider the two exact sum rules obeyed by the density of states in the lowest Landau level, specializing to the Laughlin case ( = 1=p). They read:

Z

where =

p2[planckover2pi1]c=eB0 is the magnetic length and M is the total angular momentum. The rst sum rule is satis ed by a droplet of constant density with sharp boundary, that has the form of a radial step function, (x) = B0=2p for x2 < Np2, (x) = 0 for x2 > Np2.

However, inserting this droplet form in the second sum rule only gives the leading O(N2)

term. This implies that the sub-leading O(N) contribution depends on the shape of the density at the boundary.

We can repeat the calculation with the improved expression of (x) in (2.22): we assume that B(x) has the pro le of the sharp droplet and compute the sum rules including

the O(@2=B0) correction. Upon integration by parts, this correction vanishes in the rst sum rule, while it correctly yields the sub-leading O(N) contribution in the second sum rule, upon matching the parameters

s +

so = p=2 1. Of course, changing the pro le B(x)

from a sharp droplet can alter this result by an additive constant; this is another indication that this quantity is not universal. In conclusion, we have found that the intrinsic angular momentum parameter

s also accounts for the uctuation of the density pro le near the boundary of the droplet.

3 W1 symmetry and multipole expansion

3.1 Quantum area-preserving di eomorphisms

A droplet of two-dimensional incompressible uid is characterized at the classical level by a constant density 0 and a sharp boundary. For a circular geometry, the ground state droplet

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d2x = N;

Z

d2xx2

2 = M + N =

pN(N 1)

2 + N; (2.24)

Figure 3. Shape deformation of the droplet under the action of area preserving di eomorphisms.

has the shape of a disk and uctuations amount to shape deformations (see gure 3). Given that the number of electrons N = 0A is xed, the area A is a constant of motion, i.e.

uctuations correspond to droplets of same area and di erent shapes. These con gurations of the uid can be realized by coordinate changes that keep the area constant, i.e. by area-preserving di eomorphisms [28, 29].

These transformations, already introduced in (2.21), are generated by a scalar function w(t; x); the uctuations of the density are given by:

w = "ij @i @jw = [notdef]; w[notdef] ; xi = ui = "ij @jw(t; x) ; (3.1) where we introduced the Poisson bracket over the (x1; x2) coordinates, in analogy with the canonical transformations of a two-dimensional phase space. The calculation of uctuations/transformations for the ground state density using (3.1) yields derivatives of the step function that are localized at the edge, as expected [28, 29].

It is convenient to introduce the complex notation for the coordinates,

z = x1 + ix2;

z = x1 ix2; ds2 = dz d

z; zz = 12; zz = 2; (3.2)

and the corresponding Poisson brackets:

{; w[notdef] = "zz @z @zw + (z $ z); "zz = "zz = 2i : (3.3)

A basis of generators can be obtained by expanding the function w(z;

z) in power series,

Ln,m = zn+1 zm+1; w(z; z) =

Xn,m 1cnm zn+1 zm+1 : (3.4)

The Ln,m generators obey the so-called w1 algebra of area-preserving di eomorphisms,

[notdef]Ln,m; Lk,l[notdef] = ((m + 1)(k + 1) (n + 1)(l + 1)) Ln+k,m+l : (3.5)

We consider now the implementation of this symmetry in the quantum theory of electrons in the lowest Landau level, where coordinates do not commute, i.e. [^

z; ^

z] = 2. The

density and symmetry generators become one-body operators acting in this Hilbert space, that are expressed in terms of bilinears of lowest Landau level eld operators ^

(z;

z):

^

= ^

^

; ^

Ln,m =

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Z

d2z ^

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(z;

z) zn+1

zm+1 ^

(z;

z); (3.6)

Upon using the (non-local) commutation relations of eld operators, one can nd the quantum algebra of the generators (3.6) [28, 29],

h

^

Ln,m; ^

Lk,l

i

=

Min(m,k)

Xs=12s (m + 1)!(k + 1)!(m s + 1)!(k s + 1)!s!^

Ln+ks+1,m+ls+1

(m $ l; n $ k) : (3.7)

This is called the W1 algebra of quantum area-preserving transformations. The terms on

the right hand side form an expansion in powers of 2 = 2[planckover2pi1]=B0: the rst term corresponds to the quantization of the classical w1 algebra (3.5), while the others are higher quantum

corrections O([planckover2pi1]n), n > 1.

At the quantum level, the classical density given by the ground state expectation value (z;

z) = [angbracketleft] [notdef] ^

[notdef] [angbracketright], becomes a Wigner phase-space density function, owing to the

non-commutativity of coordinates. The quantum uctuations of the density are given by the commutator with the generator ^

w,

^

w = Z

d2z ^

(z;

z) w (z;

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z) ^

(z;

z); (3.8)

leading to the result [36{38],

(z;

z) = i [angbracketleft] [notdef] [^

(z;

z); ^

Xn=1(2[planckover2pi1])nBn0 n!(@nz @nzw @nzw @nz) [notdef]; w[notdef]M : (3.9)

The non-local expression on the right-hand side is called the Moyal brackets [notdef]; w[notdef]M, whose leading O([planckover2pi1]) term is again the quantum analog of the classical transformation (3.1), (3.3). The expression (3.9) is a well-known result that holds for any state

| [angbracketright] in the lowest Landau level whose density is (z; z) = [angbracketleft] [notdef] ^ [notdef] [angbracketright]. In particular, we are

interested in the ground states at lling fraction = 1=p, i.e. the Laughlin states. Note that eq. (3.9) only depends on the value of the lling fraction implicitly through the density.

Let us recall that the W1 algebra of ^

1

w] [notdef] [angbracketright] = i

w generators can also be presented in a di erent basis than the power series (3.6), (3.7). We can consider the Fourier modes ^

w(k;

k) by

inserting w = exp ik

z=2 + i

kz=2

in (3.8), actually corresponding to the density in mo-

mentum space, ^

k). In this basis the W1 commutation relations, obtained by

taking Moyal brackets (3.9) of two plane waves, takes the form of the Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman algebra [39]:

^(k; k); ^(p; p) =

w(k;

k) ^

(k;

epk/4 epk/4 ^(k + p; k + p) : (3.10)

The W1 symmetry of Laughlin and hierarchical uids has been investigated in several

works [28, 29, 33{35], that mainly studied its implementation in the conformal eld theory of edge excitations. In the limit to the edge, the density and W1 generators (3.6) become

operators in the (1 + 1)-dimensional theory of the Weyl fermion ^

F . Their expressions

are [30{32]:

^

(R ) = ^

F ( ) ^

F ( ); ^

Ln,m =

I

d ^

F ( ) ei(nm)

i @ @

m+1^

F ( ); (3.11)

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where R is the coordinate on the boundary, with R xed, such that z ! R exp(i ) and

z

z z@z ! i@ . Thus, the conformal theory possesses chiral conserved currents of increas

ing spin (scale dimension), = 0; 1; 2; : : : , whose Fourier components are given by (3.11). These are: the charge W 0 = F F , the stress tensor W 1 T = F @F , the spin two eld

W 2 = F @2F , and so on [30{32]. The general conformal theories with W1 symmetry in

clude multicomponent fermionic and bosonic theories and certain coset reductions of them. In particular, the Jain hierarchy of fractional Hall states was uniquely derived by assuming this symmetry and the minimality of the spectrum of excitations [33{35].

3.2 Higher spin elds

The formula (3.9) of the Moyal brackets is the central point of the following discussion. It expresses the fact that the uctuations of the density are non-local functions of the density itself. This is not surprising, since any excitation in the lowest Landau level cannot be localized in an area smaller than 2. Nevertheless, the non-locality is controlled by the [planckover2pi1], or 1=B0, expansion. Let us consider (3.9) to the second order in 1=B0 ([planckover2pi1] = 1):

1

B20

1

B0 " @ @k bk; ; ; = 0; 1; 2; k = 1; 2; (3.14)

where the components of the spin-two eld are bk = (b01; b02; b11; b12; b21; b22) and the

summation over spatial indices k is implicit. In this expression, the gauge symmetry,

bk ! bk + @vk ; (3.15)

involving the space vector vk, can be used to x two space components of bjk, making it symmetric and traceless. Moreover, the two components b0k will turn out to be Lagrange

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i2

B0 @z @zw +

2i

B20

@2z @2zw + h.c.

= "zz

1

B0 @z (@z) +

@2z @2zw

z) : (3.12)

In the second line of this equation, we reordered the derivatives and added one scalar term in w !. The tensor structure of this expression involves a spin one eld (az; az) and a traceless symmetric tensor eld (bzz; bzz) in two dimensions as follows:

= "zz @z

az + 12B0 @vbzv vv +12B0 @vbzv vv + (z $ z) ; (3.13)

since bvz = bzv = 0, with v another complex variable. The elds (az; bzz) are independent because ; w are general functions; they are also irreducible with respect to the O(2) symmetry of the plane.

In the rst term of (3.13), we recognize the zero component of the matter current expressed in terms of the hydrodynamic gauge eld, j(1) = " @ a, as discussed in section two. Indeed, the other components ji(1), involving also a0, are uniquely determined by the requirements of current conservation and gauge invariance of a. The second term in (3.13)

is similarly rewritten:

j(2) =

+ (z $

multipliers, such that the eld bk represents two physical degrees of freedom, namely the original (bzz; bzz).

In summary, we can view the expansion (3.12) of the Moyal bracket as the gauge- xed time component of the current:

j = j(1) + j(2) = @ a +

1B0 @ @kbk : (3.16)

The analysis can be similarly extended to the O(1=B30) term in (3.9) involving the spin three eld ckl, that is fully symmetric and traceless with respect to its three space indices, and again possesses two physical components, (czzz; czzz); this term will be analyzed in

section 3.5. Continuing the expansion one encounters further irreducible higher-spin elds

that are fully traceless and symmetric.We conclude that the W1 symmetry of the incompressible uid in the lowest Landau

level shows the existence of non-local uctuations, that can be made local by expanding in powers of 1=B0 and introducing a generalized hydrodynamic approach with higher-spin traceless symmetric elds. This is suggestive of a multipole expansion, where the rst term reproduces Wens theory, and the sub-leading terms give corrections that explore the dipole and higher moments of excitations.

We nally remark that the W1 symmetry also holds for Hall incompressible uids that

ll a nite number of Landau levels beyond the rst one [28, 29].

3.3 The e ective theory to second order

The construction of the e ective theory for the spin-two eld bk follows the usual steps described at the beginning of section 2. We need to couple the current j(2) in (3.14) to the external eld A and introduce a dynamics for the new eld.

The action for bk should possess the gauge symmetry (3.15), treat the time components b0k non-dynamical and possess as much Lorentz symmetry as possible. To lowest order in derivatives, the following generalized Chern-Simons action satis es these requirements:

S(2) =

1

2 B0

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Z

d3x bk @ bk: (3.17)

The main di erence with the standard action for a is the lack of Lorentz symmetry.

In the search of higher-spin eld theories in (2 + 1) dimensions, we can take advantage of the works [41{43], that have introduced the following family of relativistic actions:

SCSHS =

Z

d3x b{Ai} @ b{Bj} {Ai}{Bj}; (3.18)

where b{Ai} = bA1,,A1 is totally symmetric with respect to its ( 1) local-Lorentz in

dices, Ai = 0; 1; 2, and {Ai}{Bj} is the totally symmetric delta function. The actions (3.18)

can be made general covariant and reduce to S(2) in the non-relativistic limit (for = 2). In the following, we shall keep the discussion as simple as possible and derive the e ective action to quadratic order in the uctuations. In this approximation, we can consider the index k of bk as the space part of a local-Lorentz index. Note also that we do not extend

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the eld bk ! b , totally symmetric in ( ), because in the action (3.17) this would

imply a canonical momentum for b0k that is not wanted.

The hydrodynamic e ective action for bk = bkdx, including the electromagnetic coupling j(2)A is therefore given by:

S(2)[b; A] =

Z

1

B0 A d @kbk : (3.19)

Upon integrating the bk eld, one obtains the following contribution to the induced e ective action (2.3),

S(2)[A] =

1

2 B0 bk d bk +

A d A ; (3.20)

where is the Laplacian. Therefore, we have obtained the O(1=B0) correction to the density and Hall current for slow-varying elds, discussed at the end of section two, eqs. (2.22), (2.23).

3.3.1 Coupling to the spatial metric

We now introduce a metric background in the limit of weak gravity and obtain the e ective action to quadratic order in electromagnetic and metric uctuations. We let interact the metric with the bk eld, independently of the a uctuations, by de ning the stress tensor tik that couples to the metric gik, as follows:

tk = kn @ bn : (3.21)

In this expression, we added the component t0k such that the stress tensor is conserved by construction, @tk = 0. Regarding its space components, we nd that the anti-symmetric part,

"iktik = "ij (@j b0i @0 bji) ; (3.22) is proportional to the antisymmetric part of bij and the Lagrange multiplier b0i, that can be put to zero on all observables by a gauge choice. Namely, the stress tensor (3.21) is symmetric \on-shell".

Some insight on the de nition of the stress tensor (3.21) can be obtained by comparing it with the expression (2.1) of the matter current j(1) in terms of the hydrodynamic eld a. The uctuation of the charge is given by the integration of the density over the droplet,

Q =

ZD d2x = I@Ddxiai : (3.23)

This reduces to a boundary integral of the hydrodynamic eld, as expected for incompressible uids. Similarly, the integral of the stress tensor gives the momentum uctuation,

P k =

ZD d2x t0k = kl I@Ddxi bil = uk; (3.24)

that is expressed by the boundary integral of the spin-two hydrodynamic eld. Further higher-spin elds measure other tensor quantities at the boundary, thus con rming the picture of the multipole expansion of the droplet dynamics. This argument also gives some indications on the matching between higher-spin elds in the bulk and on the edge (3.11) (the bulk-edge correspondence will be further discussed in the Conclusions).

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2B0

Z

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3.3.2 The Wen-Zee action rederived

Next, we introduce the metric coupling gk tk in the second order action (3.19), including an independent constant and the component g0k for ease of calculation, to be put to zero at the end:

S(2)[b; A; g] =

Z

1

2 B0 bk d bk +

1B0 A d @kbk + gk kn @ bn : (3.25)

After integration of bk, the induced e ective action takes the form:

S(2)[A; g] = S(2)EM[A] + S(2)MIX[A; g] + S(2)GR[g]; (3.26)

where the three terms read,

S(2)EM[A] =

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2B0

Z

d3x A@ A ; (3.27)

S(2)MIX[A; g] = Z

d3x ij kn (A0@i Ai@0) @k gjn ; (3.28)

S(2)G[g] =

B0 2 2

Z

gjk : (3.29)

The rst term is the O(1=B0) electromagnetic correction already found in (3.20). The second and third terms can be rewritten using formulas (2.16) and (2.17) of section two, as follows:

S(2)MIX[A; g] + S(2)G[g] = Z

d3x ij gik _

d3x

A0R + "ij_

Ai j

B0 2 "ij gik _ gjk

: (3.30)

We have thus obtained the same expression of the Wen-Zee action (2.18) approximated to quadratic order in the uctuations. The parameters are identi ed as,

=

1

2 : (3.31)

Equations (3.25) and (3.30) are the main result of this paper. We have found that the W1

symmetry of incompressible uids led to introduce a spin-two hydrodynamic eld, whose coupling to the metric induces the Wen-Zee action, earlier obtained by coupling the spin connection to the charge current (cf. eq. (2.8)).

3.4 Universality and other remarks

Let us add some comments:

The result (3.30) seems to indicate that the gravitational interaction through

spin (2.8) of the Wen-Zee approach is equivalent to the coupling to angular momentum of extended excitations.

Nonetheless, the W1 symmetry implies the multipole expansion (3.9), whose higher

components should induce further geometric terms in the e ective action (see next section).

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s2 ; =

In our approach, momentum and charge uctuations are described by independent

elds, bk and a, respectively. In microscopic theories, the xed mass to charge ratio of electrons implies the relation P i = (m=e)Ji between the two currents; this fact is at the basis of the local Galilean symmetry (Newton-Cartan approach) that has been investigated in the refs. [20{25]. However, in the lowest Landau level m vanishes and the quasiparticle excitations, being composite fermions or dipoles, could have independent momentum and charge uctuations. In particular, purely neutral excitations at the edge are present for hierarchical Hall uids [33{35, 40].

The quadratic action (3.29) is invariant under spatial time-independent reparame

terizations within the quadratic approximation. One can easily extend it to be fully space covariant; however, we do not understand at present how to consistently treat the time-dependent non-covariant e ects. In particular, there could be several extensions, corresponding to a lack of universality for the results. This point is left to future investigations.

The O(1=B0) correction to the Chern-Simons action provided by S(2)EM in (3.27) is

non-universal as already discussed at the end of section two. Actually, any addition

of terms involving powers of the Laplacian and of the curvature,

S[A; g] =

4

Z

1 + 1

B0 + [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] + 1 R

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B0 + [notdef] [notdef] [notdef]

AdA

+

s 2

Z

1 + 2

B0 + [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] + 2 R

B0 + [notdef] [notdef] [notdef]

Ad! ; (3.32)

amounts to local deformations that are non-universal (including also the higher-derivative Maxwell term). They can always added a-posteriori in the e ective action approach and their coe cients i; i; [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] can be tuned at will. In particular, including

the Laplacian correction (3.32) into the expression (3.20) and comparing with the known result (2.22), leads to the parameter matching:

s 4

( s +

s0)

4 =

8 : (3.33)

Laplacian and curvature corrections to the density and Hall current of Laughlin uids

have been computed to higher order in refs. [48{50]. They have been obtained for a clean system without distortions and thus should be considered as ne-tuned for a realistic setting.

In deriving the e ective theory for the bk eld, we have assumed its dynamics to be

independent from that of a. Actually, a non-diagonal Chern-Simons term

R

bk d @ka

could be added to the action (3.25), but this would lead to further Laplacian corrections in (3.32).

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3.5 The third-order term

The third term in the Moyal brackets (3.9), i@3z @3zw=B20 + h:c:, after reordering of

derivatives let us introduce a spin-three eld that is totally symmetric and traceless in the space indices, with components (czzz; czzz):

(3) = 1

B20

"zz@3z czzz + h:c: : (3.34)

This expression can be considered as the gauge xed, on-shell expression of the following current,

j(3) =

1 B20

@ @k@l P k[prime]l[prime]kl ck[prime]l[prime] ; (3.35)

where

n[prime]n l[prime]l + n[prime]l l[prime]n nl n[prime]l[prime] ; (3.36)

is the symmetric and traceless projector with respect to the (nl) indices. In equation (3.35), the spin-three eld ckl, traceless symmetric on the (kl) indices, has now six components ckl = (c0zz; c0zz; czzz; czzz; czzz; czzz). Two of them can be xed by the gauge symmetry,

ckl ! ckl + @vkl, with traceless symmetric vkl, while the two components with time

index are Lagrange multipliers, leading again to two physical components.

The natural form of the coupling of the spin-three eld to the metric, although not uniquely justi ed, is the same as that of the spin-two eld (3.21) with an additional derivative:

tk(2) =

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P n[prime]l[prime]nl = 12

1B0 kn @ @l P n[prime]l[prime]nlcn

[prime]l[prime] ; (3.37)

The kinetic term for the spin-three eld with the desired gauge symmetry and other properties has again the generalized Chern-Simons form (3.18). In summary, the third-order e ective hydrodynamic action is (ckl = ckldx):

S(3)[c; A; g] =Z

1

2 B20

ckl d ckl + Aj(3) + gktk(2) : (3.38)

The integration over the spin-three eld yields the following induced e ective action,

S(3)[A; g] = S(3)EM[A] + S(3)MIX[A; g] + S(3)GR[g]; (3.39)

where:

S(3)EM[A] =

4B20

Z

2 AdA ; (3.40)

S(3)MIX[A; g] =

2B0

Z

A0 R + "ij

_

Ai j ; (3.41)

S(3)GR[g] =

2 4

Z

gjk : (3.42)

We thus obtain local Laplacian corrections to the same terms that occur in the second-order action (3.27){(3.29). This is not surprising because both couplings in (3.38) are derivatives of the lower-order ones (3.25).

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"ij gik _

It is natural to compare the result (3.42) with the gravitational Wen-Zee action in (2.9)

SGRWZ[g] =

Z

Z

=4. In the second line of this equation we also wrote the expansion to quadratic order in the uctuations, to which the cubic term !0R does not contribute.

Equation (3.44) shows that the gravitational Wen-Zee term contains Laplacian and curvature corrections to the Hall viscosity (2.19). The comparison with the W1 result (3.42)

shows that the expressions of S(3)GR and SGRWZ are similar but not identical, to quadratic order. The explicit calculation of the induced action for integer lling fractions of ref. [17]

is in agreement with (3.42). Following the discussion of universality in section 3.4, we are lead to conclude that the Laplacian corrections in the third-order W1 action (3.40){(3.42)

and the gravitational Wen-Zee term (3.44) are non-universal. We further remark that the curvature correction

R

!0R in (3.43), not obtained in our approach, is believed to be uni

versal because it is also found in the calculation of the Hall viscosity from the Berry phase of the Laughlin wavefunction in curved backgrounds [46, 47].

4 The dipole picture

We now present some heuristic arguments that explain two results of the previous sections in terms of simple features of dipoles.

The rst observation concerns the uctuation of the density pro le at the boundary ( gure 2). We assume that the low-energy excitations of the uids are extended objects with a dipole moment; their charge is not vanishing but takes a fractional value due to the unbalance of the two charges in the dipole (numerical evidences of dipoles were rst discussed in ref. [53], to our knowledge). The dipole orientations are randomly distributed in the bulk of the uid such that they can be approximated by point-like objects with fractional charge (see gure 4). However, near the boundary of the droplet, there is a gradient of charge between the interior and the empty exterior; thus, the dipoles align their positive charge tip towards the interior and create the ring-shaped density uctuation that is observed at the boundary. The e ect is stronger for higher dipole moment, that is proportional to

s = p=2, as seen in gure 2.

The second e ect that can be interpreted in terms of dipoles is the Hall viscosity itself (see gure 5). Again the randomly oriented dipoles in the bulk are perturbed by stirring the uid, namely they acquire an ordered con guration due to the mechanical forces applied. Any kind of ordered con guration of dipoles, such as that depicted in the gure, creates a ring-shaped uctuation of the density and thus an electrostatic force orthogonal to the uid motion. This e ect is parameterized by the Hall viscosity as discussed in section two (cf. gure 1).

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! d ! =

Z !

"ij gik ( kl @k@l) _

0 R "ij!i _

!j

gjl ; (3.44)

(3.43)

4

where =

s2 c=12

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Figure 4. Dipoles aligned at the boundary.

Figure 5. Hall viscosity caused by dipoles aligned along the uid stream.

Some simple dipole con gurations can be described as follows. We rewrite the higher-spin eld expansion of the density in (3.16), (3.35) in the form,

= "ij@i aj + 1B0 @k bjk +1B20

@k@l 1 2 kl

; (4.1)

and compare to explicit charge con gurations. First consider a bulk charge excitation, (~x) = q 2(~x): this is parameterized by the leading hydrodynamic eld ai O(1=[notdef]~x[notdef]), as

also shown by (3.23). The higher-spin elds do not contribute because they decay faster at [notdef]x[notdef] in nity, respectively @kbjk O(1=[notdef]~x[notdef]2) and @k@lcjkl O(1=~x[notdef]3), due to the higher

derivatives. Next, we analyze a dipole con guration,

(~x) = q

2(~x + ~d) 2(~x ~d) ; (4.2)

that corresponds to a O(1=[notdef]~x[notdef]2) eld, for [notdef]~x[notdef] [notdef]

~d[notdef]. In this case, both aj and bjk contribute.

It follows that higher moments of the charge con guration gradually involve elds of higher spin values in (4.1).

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cjkl + [notdef] [notdef] [notdef]

We remark that this many-to-one eld expansion is a solution for the non-locality of the dynamics. One could consider a rede nition of the expansion (4.1) in terms of a single eld, such as ui = ai+(1=B0)@kbjk+[notdef] [notdef] [notdef] , but this would imply non-local terms in the Chern-

Simon actions (3.25), (3.38). Actually, a non-local formulation of Hall physics based on non-commutative Chern-Simons theory has been proposed in ref. [54], that corresponds to matrix quantum mechanics and matrix quantum elds [55, 56]. We think that the present higher-spin approach shares some features with the non-commutative theory, while being more general and exible.

5 Conclusions

In this paper, we have used the W1 symmetry of quantum Hall incompressible uids to

set up a power expansion in the parameter [planckover2pi1]=B0. This analysis leads to a generalized hydrodynamic approach with higher-spin gauge elds, that can be interpreted as a multipole expansion of the extended low-energy excitations of the uid. To second order, the spin-two eld with Chern-Simons dynamics and electromagnetic and metric couplings reproduces the Wen-Zee action. The third-order term yields non-universal corrections to it.

Regarding the universality of terms of the e ective action, we have pointed out that local gradient and curvature corrections are non-universal. The universal terms and coef- cients can be identi ed with those that have a correspondence with the conformal eld theory on the edge of the droplet. As is well known, the Chern-Simons terms in the e ective action,

S[a; b; c; [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] ; A; g; [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] ] =

Z

a d a +

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ckl d ckl + [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] + couplings; (5.1)

are not fully gauge invariant and boundary actions are needed to compensate [40].

Typically, the bulk elds de ne boundary elds that express the boundary action and have spin reduced by one: as is well known, the eld a de nes through the relation a = @ the scalar edge eld that expresses the chiral Luttinger liquid action [40]. Namely, the boundary eld is the gauge degrees of freedom that becomes physical at the edge. Similarly, the spin-two eld identi es an edge chiral vector, b = @v , with

the azimuthal direction; the spin-three a two-tensor and so on. It follows that the couplings ;

s; ; [notdef] [notdef] [notdef] in (5.1) also appear as parameters in the edge action and can be

put in relation with observables of the conformal eld theory. Since their values can be related to universal quantities at the edge, these parameters can be de ned globally on the system and manifestly do not depend on disorder and other local e ects. A hint of this correspondence is already apparent in the quantities (3.23), (3.24) discussed in section 3.3.1. Let us also mention the work [26, 27] studying the boundary terms of the Wen-Zee action.

The analysis presented in this paper could be developed in many aspects:

The bulk-edge correspondence for higher-spin actions (5.1) should be developed in

detail, and the observables of the conformal eld theory should be identi ed that

express the universal parameters. Clearly, the higher-spin elds do not have an

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sB0 bk d bk +

1

2 B20

independent dynamics at the edge: for Laughlin states, the higher-spin currents are expressed as polynomials of the charge current @ [57].

The third order e ective action could encode universal e ects if the spin-three hy

drodynamic eld is coupled to a novel spin-three background metric, the two elds being related by a Legendre transform. At present we lack a geometric understanding of these higher-spin background elds, and the physical e ects that they describe.

The analysis presented in this work should be put in contact with the Haldane ap

proach of parametric variations of the Laughlin wavefunction, that also involves a traceless spin-two eld [9{12]. Further deformations could be encoded in the higher-spin background elds mentioned before. Moreover, our approach should be related to the Wiegmann generalized hydrodynamics of electron-vortex composites [13, 14].

The higher-spin Chern-Simons theories (5.1) predict new statistical phases for dipole

monodromies that require physical understanding and veri cation in model wave-functions.

The whole analysis can be extended to the hierarchical Hall states that are described

by multicomponent hydrodynamic Chern-Simon elds [40].

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank A.G. Abanov, A. Gromov, F.D.M. Haldane, T.H. Hansson,K. Jensen, D. Karabali, S. Klevtsov, V.P. Nair, D. Seminara, D.T. Son, P. Wiegmann and G.R. Zemba for very useful scienti c exchanges. A.C. acknowledge the hospitality and support by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, and the G. Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, where part of this work was done. The support of the European IRSES grant, Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation (QICFT) is also acknowledged.

A Curved space formulas

We consider a spatial metric gij = gij(xk; t), with i; j; k = 1; 2, depending on space and time and assume that g00 = g0j = 0. This metric can be written in terms of the spatial zweibeins eai as follows,

with the coordinates and local frame indices taking the values i; j; a; b = 1; 2. The zweibeins eai and their inverses Eia satisfy the conditions:

Eiaeaj = ij; Eiaebi = ab: (A.2)

We also assume that the matrix of vielbeins eA in three dimensions ( ; A = 0; 1; 2), has vanishing space-time and time-time components.

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gij = eaiebj ab; (A.1)

When the gravity background has vanishing torsion, the spin connection can be expressed in terms of the vielbeins [58]. Starting from the three-dimensional expression ( ; ; = 0; 1; 2 and A; B; C = 0; 1; 2),

!AB(e) = 12 E [A@[eB] ] E [AEB]eC@ eC : (A.3)

and the de nition,!C = 12 ABC!AB; (A.4)

we obtain the following results:

!a = 0; a = 1; 2; (A.5)

!0 !00 =

1

2 abEaj@0ebj; (A.6)

1

2 abEaj@iebj

pg ij: (A.8)

In two spatial dimensions the Riemann tensor Rabij and the Ricci scalar R depend on the

spin connection through the formulas,

Rabij = (@i!j @j!i) ab; R = 2

pg : (A.12)

We now nd the approximate formulas for small uctuations around the at metric,i.e. gij = ij + gij. Then, pg [similarequal] 1 and gij = gij. Choosing a gauge for the local O(2)

symmetry such that the zweibeins form a symmetric matrix, we nd from (A.1) that:

gij = eaj ai + eai aj = 2 eij: (A.13)

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and

jk

!i !0i =

1

2

pg @jgki; (A.7)

where g = det(gij). In the last equation, jk is the antisymmetric symbol of coordinate space, 12 = 1, that is related to that in local frame space as follows:

ab = eaiebj ij pg ; abEaiEbj =

1

@i!j ij

pg : (A.9)

Their coordinate components are written in terms of the Christo el symbols ijk as follows:

Rijkl = @j ikl + ijr rkl (j $ k); R = gjlRkjkl; (A.10)

where

ijk = 12gil (@jglk + @kglj @lgjk) : (A.11)

Finally, in curved space the expression for the magnetic eld becomes:

B =

ij@iAj

In this limit, an approximate expression for !0 in (A.6) is obtained by making use of (A.2) and (A.13):

!0 =

1 8 ik gij _

gkj: (A.14)

To the linear order, we also nd that !j in (A.7), ijk in (A.11) and the Ricci scalar R

in (A.9) and (A.10) take the following expressions:

!j = 12 ki@i gkj; (A.15)

ijk i,jk =

1

2 (@j gik + @k gij @i gjk) ; (A.16)

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R = @i@j ij@2

gij: (A.17)

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