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The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give a brief introduction to the phenomenon of the Fractional Quantum Hall effect, whose discovery was awarded the Nobel prize in 1998. We also explain the composite fermion picture which describes the fractional quantum Hall effect as the integer quantum Hall effect of composite fermions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9902292,
  title  = {The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect},
  author = {Sumathi Rao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9902292},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures, talk presented at the Prof. K. S. Krishnan Birth Centenary Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Allahabad, Dec. 7, 1998