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Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1395–1398 (1983)

Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations

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R. B. Laughlin
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550

Received 22 February 1983; published in the issue dated 2 May 1983

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This Letter presents variational ground-state and excited-state wave functions which describe the condensation of a two-dimensional electron gas into a new state of matter.

© 1983 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1395
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1395
PACS:
71.45.Nt, 72.20.My, 73.40.Lq