A Holographic Fractional Topological Insulator

We give a holographic realization of the recently proposed low energy effective action describing a fractional topological insulator. In particular we verify that the surface of this hypothetical material supports a fractional quantum Hall current corresponding to half that of a Laughlin state.

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4 pages, 2 figures

11.25.Tq
73.43.-f
Hall effect: fractional
insulator: topological
effective action
holography
surface
gauge field theory
color
time reversal: invariance

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