Abstract
The higher dimensional quantum Hall liquid constructed recently supports stable topological membrane excitations. Here we introduce a microscopic interacting Hamiltonian and present its exact ground state wave function. We show that this microscopic ground state wave function describes a topological quantum membrane. We also construct variational wave functions for excited states using the noncommutative algebra on the four sphere. Our approach introduces a nonperturbative method to quantize topological membranes.
- Received 29 October 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.196801
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