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Exotic Galilean symmetry in the non-commutative plane and the Hall effect

C Duval1 and P A Horváthy2

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Quantum mechanics in the non-commutative plane is shown to admit the 'exotic' symmetry of the doubly centrally extended Galilei group. When coupled to a planar magnetic field whose strength is the inverse of the non-commutative parameter, the system becomes singular, and 'Faddeev–Jackiw' reduction yields the 'Chern–Simons' mechanics of Dunne et al. The reduced system moves according to the Hall law.


PACS

03.65.-w Quantum mechanics

02.20.-a Group theory

73.43.Cd Theory and modeling

MSC

81R60 Noncommutative geometry

81V70 Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 47 (30 November 2001)

Received 30 August 2001

Published 16 November 2001



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