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The Fermion–Boson Transformation In Fractional Quantum Hall Systems, John Quinn, Arkadiusz Wojs, Jennifer Quinn, Arthur Benjamin
The Fermion–Boson Transformation In Fractional Quantum Hall Systems, John Quinn, Arkadiusz Wojs, Jennifer Quinn, Arthur Benjamin
Jennifer J. Quinn
A Fermion to Boson transformation is accomplished by attaching to each Fermion a single flux quantum oriented opposite to the applied magnetic field. When the mean field approximation is made in the Haldane spherical geometry, the Fermion angular momentum l_F is replaced by l_B - l_F - 1/2(N-1). The set of allowed total angular momentum multiplets is identical in the two different pictures. The Fermion and Boson energy spectra in the presence of many body interactions are identical if and only if the pseudopotential is "harmonic" in form. However, similar low energy bands of states with Laughlin correlations occur in …