Vortices in the Landau--Ginzburg Model of the Quantized Hall Effect
Abstract
The `Landau--Ginzburg' theory of Girvin and MacDonald, modified by adding the natural magnetic term, is shown to admit stable topological as well as non-topological vortex solutions. The system is the commun λ0 limit of two slightly different non-relativistic Maxwell--Chern--Simons models of the type introduced recently by Manton. The equivalence with the model of Zhang, Hansson and Kivelson is demonstrated.
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