Local charge of the ν = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7329, 2011, Pages 185-188

  Venkatachalam, Vivek ^a   Yacoby, Amir ^a   Pfeiffer, Loren ^b   West, Ken ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; KINETICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651394785     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09680     Document Type: Article

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