JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Matrix models in the quantum Hall effect"

[CM ICTP - Trieste]

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

	



Tuesday, 29 January    -    13:00 hrs.




Seminar Room - ICTP Main Building
(first floor)

		




A. CAPPELLI
( INFN, Florence )





"Matrix models in the quantum Hall effect"



Abstract


We discuss a quantum-mechanical model with matrix variables that has 
been originally introduced for D0-branes in string theory.
Upon replacing Hall electrons with D0-branes, the model naturally 
accounts for the Laughlin and Jain wave functions of phenomenological 
approaches. The matrix model could provide another effective field 
theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect.