Tunnelling Effects in a Brane System and Quantum Hall Physics

Abstract

We argue that a system of interacting D-branes, generalizing a recent proposal, can be modelled as a Quantum Hall fluid. We show that tachyon condensation in such a system is equivalent to one particle tunnelling. In a conformal field theory effective description, that induces a transition from a theory with central charge c=2 to a theory with c=3/2, with a corresponding symmetry enhancement.