Electromagnetic and gravitational responses of two-dimensional noninteracting electrons in a background magnetic field

Alexander G. Abanov and Andrey Gromov
Phys. Rev. B 90, 014435 – Published 29 July 2014

Abstract

We compute electromagnetic, gravitational, and mixed linear response functions of two-dimensional free fermions in an external quantizing magnetic field at an integer filling factor. The results are presented in the form of the effective action and as an expansion of currents and stresses in wave vectors and frequencies of the probing electromagnetic and metric fields. In addition to the well-studied U(1) Chern-Simons and Wen-Zee terms we find a gravitational Chern-Simons term that controls the correction to the Hall viscosity due to the background curvature. We relate the coefficient in front of the term with the chiral central charge.

  • Received 1 February 2014
  • Revised 14 July 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014435

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Alexander G. Abanov1,2 and Andrey Gromov1

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
  • 2Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA

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Vol. 90, Iss. 1 — 1 July 2014

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