Topological invariant for the orbital spin of the electrons in the quantum Hall regime and Hall viscosity. 2015

V Gurarie
Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

Hall conductance of noninteracting fermions filling a certain number of Landau levels can be written as a topological invariant. A particular version of this invariant when expressed in terms of the single particle Green's functions directly generalizes to cases when interactions are present including those of fractional Hall states, although in those cases this invariant no longer corresponds to Hall conductance. We argue that when evaluated for both integer and fractional Hall states this invariant gives twice the total orbital spin of fermions which in turn is closely related to the Hall viscosity, a quantity characterizing the integer and fractional Hall states which recently received substantial attention in the literature.

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