Fractional charges on an integer quantum hall edge

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Berg, E ^a   Oreg, Y ^a,b   Kim, E A ^a,c   Von Oppen, F ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED EXCITATIONS; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; EDGE CHANNELS; EDGE STATE; FRACTIONAL CHARGES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM HALL; SOLITON-LIKE; TIME-RESOLVED;

SOLITONS;

EID: 67249112546     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.236402     Document Type: Article

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