Abelian and Non-abelian Hall Liquids and Charge Density Wave: Quantum Number Fractionalization in One and Two Dimensions

Abstract

Previously we have demonstrated that, on a torus, the abelian quantum hall liquid is adiabatically connected to a charge density wave as the smaller dimension of the torus is varied. In this work we extend this result to the non-abelian bosonic Hall state. The outcome of these works is the realization that the paradigms of quantum number fractionalization in one dimension (polyacetylene) and two dimensions (fractional quantum Hall effect) are in fact equivalent.

4 pages, 2 figures, published version