Boundary criticality and multifractality at the two-dimensional spin quantum Hall transition

Abstract

Multifractal scaling of critical wave functions at a disorder-driven (Anderson) localization transition is modified near boundaries of a sample. Here this effect is studied for the example of the spin quantum Hall plateau transition using the supersymmetry technique for disorder averaging. Upon mapping the spin quantum Hall transition to the classical percolation problem with reflecting boundaries, a number of multifractal exponents governing wave-function scaling near a boundary are obtained exactly. Moreover, additional exact boundary scaling exponents of the localization problem are extracted, and the problem is analyzed in other geometries.