The ν = 5/2 quantum hall state revisited: Spontaneous breaking of the chiral fermion parity and phase transition between Abelian and non-Abelian statistics

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 651, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 331-360

  Georgiev, Lachezar S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory; Non Abelian statistics; Quantum hall effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037450386     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01076-3     Document Type: Review

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