QUANTIZED THERMAL TRANSPORT IN THE FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL-EFFECT

We analyze thermal transport in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQ HE), employing a Luttinger liquid model of edge states. Impurity media ted interchannel scattering events are incorporated in a hydrodynamic description of heat and charge transport. The thermal Hall conductance K-H is shown to provide universal characterization of the FQHE state, and reveals nontrivial information about the edge structure. The Lore nz ratio between thermal and electrical Hall conductances violates the free-electron Wiedemann-Franz law, and for some fractional states is predicted to be negative. We argue that thermal transport may provide a unique way to detect the presence of the elusive upstream propagatin g modes, predicted for fractions such as v=2/3 and v=3/5.