Mutual Chern-Simons theory and its applications in condensed matter physics
KOU Su-peng1, WENG Zheng-yu2, WEN Xiao-gang3
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1.Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2.Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 3.Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139;
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Published
05 Mar 2007
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05 Mar 2007
Abstract
In this paper, the mutual Chern-Simons (MCS) theory is introduced as a new kind of topological gauge theory in 2+1 dimensions. We use the MCS theory in gapped phase as an effective low energy theory to describe the Z2