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Title: Duality and self-duality in Ginzburg-Landau theory with Chern-Simons term
(Submitted on 24 Oct 2001 (v1), last revised 25 Oct 2001 (this version, v2))
Abstract: We derive the exact dual theory of a lattice Ginzburg-Landau theory with an additional topological Chern-Simons (CS) term. It is shown that in the zero-temperature limit, the statistical parameter $\theta=1/2\pi$ corresponds to a fixed point of the duality transformation. Thus we have found a nontrivial example of self-duality in three dimensions. In this scenario, the specialization of anyonic to fermionic statistics my be viewed as a phase transition.
Submission history
From: Flavio S. Nogueira [view email][v1] Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:34:51 GMT (7kb)
[v2] Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:45:37 GMT (7kb)