The Quantum Hall Effect

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-3-642-07720-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences

The fractional quantum Hall effect has opened up a new paradigm in the study of strongly correlated electrons and it has been shown that new concepts, such as fractional statistics, anyon, chiral Luttinger liquid and composite particles, are realized in two-dimensional electron systems. This book explains the quantum Hall effects together with these new concepts starting from elementary quantum mechanics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoshioka, Daijiro

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Discovery of the Quantum Hall Effect.- 2. Two-Dimensional Electrons in a Magnetic Field.- 3. The Integer Quantum Hall Effect.- 4. The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.- 5. Composite-Particle Mean-Field Theory.- 6. Spin and Pseudospin Freedom.- 7. Even-Denominator States.- 8. Electron States at the Sample Edge.- 9. Higher Landau Levels.- Answers to Exercises.- References.