Baryon as a Quantum Hall Droplet and the Quark-Hadron Duality

Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Oct 25;123(17):172301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.172301.

Abstract

We show that the recent proposal to describe the N_{f}=1 baryon in the large number of the color limit as a quantum Hall droplet can be understood as a chiral bag in a (1+2)-dimensional strip using the Cheshire Cat principle. For a small bag radius, the bag reduces to a vortex line which is the smile of the cat with flowing gapless quarks all spinning in the same direction. The disk enclosed by the smile is described by a topological field theory due to the Callan-Harvey anomaly outflow. The chiral bag naturally carries the unit baryon number and spin 1/2N_{c}. The generalization to arbitrary N_{f} is discussed.