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Particles in non-Abelian gauge potentials - Landau problem and insertion of non-Abelian flux (1102.0176v3)
Published 1 Feb 2011 in cond-mat.mes-hall, hep-th, and quant-ph
Abstract: We study charged spin-1/2 particles in two dimensions, subject to a perpendicular non-Abelian magnetic field. Specializing to a choice of vector potential that is spatially constant but non-Abelian, we investigate the Landau level spectrum in planar and spherical geometry, paying particular attention to the role of the total angular momentum J = L +S. After this we show that the adiabatic insertion of non-Abelian flux in a spin-polarized quantum Hall state leads to the formation of charged spin-textures, which in the simplest cases can be identified with quantum Hall Skyrmions.