Chiral partition functions of quantum Hall droplets

Annals of Physics

Volumn 325, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 465-490

  Cappelli, Andrea ^a   Viola, Giovanni ^a,b   Zemba, Guillermo R ^c,d  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Fisica   (Italy)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Fisicomatemáticas e Ingeniería   (Argentina)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory; Coulomb blockade; Modular invariance; Non Abelian statistics; Quantum Hall effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 73749083094     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: 1096035X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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