nLab Carlo A. Trugenberger

Carlo Andrea Trugenberger

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Selected writings

On $W_\infty$-algebra symmetry in fractional quantum Hall systems:

• Andrea Cappelli, Carlo A. Trugenberger, G. R. Zemba: Infinite Symmetry in the Quantum Hall Effect, Nucl. Phys. B 396 (1993) 465-490 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90660-H, arXiv:hep-th/9206027]

• Andrea Cappelli, Gerald V. Dunne, Carlo A. Trugenberger, G. R. Zemba: Conformal Symmetry and Universal Properties of Quantum Hall States, Nucl. Phys. B 398 (1993) 531-567 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90603-M, arXiv:hep-th/9211071]

  (including Floreanini-Jackiw edge mode theory)

• Andrea Cappelli, Carlo A. Trugenberger, G. R. Zemba: Classification of Quantum Hall Universality Classes by $W_{1+\infty}$ symmetry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 1902-1905 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1902, arXiv:hep-th/9310181]

On coupling abelian Chern-Simons theory to 1+2D Maxwell theory (cf. Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory) for an effective description of superconductivity:

• M. Cristina Diamantini, P. Sodano, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Gauge Theories of Josephson Junction Arrays, Nucl. Phys. B 474 (1996) 641-677 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00309-4, arXiv:hep-th/9511168]

On an experimentally accessible analog of confinement, observed in superinsulators (the dual to superconductors), where the role of quark-pairs is played by Cooper pairs (cf. dual superconductor model of confinement):

• M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger, Valeri M. Vinokur: Confinement and Asymptotic Freedom with Cooper pairs, Nature Comm. Phys. 1 77 (2018) [arXiv:1807.01984, doi:10.1038/s42005-018-0073-9]

• M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulators: a toy realization of QCD in condensed matter, Ch. 23 in Roman Jackiw – 80th Birthday Festschrift, World Scientific (2020) 275-286 [arXiv:2008.12541]

Review:

• Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulators, Bose Metals and High-$T_c$ Superconductors: The Quantum Physics of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles, World Scientific (2022) [doi:10.1142/12688]

• Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulation: Magnetic Monopoles and Electric Confinement in Condensed Matter, talk at CQTS (Feb 2025) [slides:pdf]

On discretized gravity via Ollivier-Ricci curvature of graphs (piecewise flat spacetimes):

• Carlo A. Trugenberger: Networks as the fundamental constituents of the universe, J. Phys. Complex. 6 (2025) 042001 [arXiv:2512.17676]

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