Effective Action Studies of Quantum Hall Spin Textures.pdfVIP

Effective Action Studies of Quantum Hall Spin Textures 1 1 2 K. Lejnell , A. Karlhede and S. L. Sondhi . 1 Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Box 6730, S-11385 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544 8 (February 1, 2008) 9 9 1 report here on the details of effective action studies of p We report on analytic and numerical studies of spin tex- the textured edges mentioned in [14]. We note that the tures in quantum Hall systems using a long-wavelength effec- e numerical studies have been described previously in a tive action for the magnetic degrees of freedom derived previ- S ously. The majority of our results concern skyrmions or soli- thesis by one of us [16] and are being reported here for 1 tons of this action. We have constructed approximate analytic ease of access. In the interim, effective action results on 2 solutions for skyrmions of arbitrary topological and electric skyrmion properties have been reported by Abolfath et. ] charge and derived expressions for their energies and charge al. using methods similar to ours [17], and by Rao et. al. l and spin radii. We describe a combined shooting/relaxational using a variational approach [18], while Moon and Mullen l a technique for numerical determination of the skyrmion pro- have presented an improved action that is accurate even h files and present results