One-component to two-component transition of the fractional quantum Hall effect in a wide quantum well induced by an in-plane magnetic field

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 1997, Pages R7092-R7095

  Lay, T ^a   Jungwirth, T ^a   Smrcka L ^a   Shayegan, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0000388122     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.R7092     Document Type: Article

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