Linking numbers for self-avoiding walks and percolation: application to the spin quantum Hall transition

Abstract

Non-local twist operators are introduced for the O(n) and Q-state Potts models in two dimensions which, in the limits n -> 0 (resp. Q -> 1) count the numbers of self-avoiding loops (resp. percolation clusters) surrounding a given point. This yields many results, for example the distribution of the number of percolation clusters which must be crossed to connect a given point to an infinitely distant boundary. These twist operators correspond to (1,2) in the Kac classification of conformal field theory, so that their higher-point correlations, which describe linking numbers around multiple points, may be computed exactly. As an application we compute the exact value \sqrt 3/2 for the dimensionless conductivity at the spin Hall transition, as well as the shape dependence of the mean conductance in an arbitrary simply connected geometry with two extended edge contacts.

4 pages, 3 figures; final version as will appear in PRL

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