4 papers
A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics
V. P. Nair
A.P. Balachandran was a theoretical physicist of extraordinary versatility and originality. In a career spanning over six decades, he made many significant contributions to quantum…
On Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theories in three and four dimensions
Dimitra Karabali, Antonina Maj, V. P. Nair
We calculate the Casimir energy for the configuration of two parallel plates coupled to nonabelian gauge fields with a Yang-Mills action. We consider both 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions in…
Entanglement and Interface Conditions on Fields
Antonina Maj, V. P. Nair
We consider the vacuum wave function of a free scalar field theory in space partitioned into two regions, with the field obeying Robin conditions (of parameter ) on the interfac…
Fractional quantum Hall effect in higher dimensions
Abhishek Agarwal, Dimitra Karabali, V. P. Nair
Generalizing from previous work on the integer quantum Hall effect, we construct the effective action for the analog of Laughlin states for the fractional quantum Hall effect in hi…