Fractional quantum Hall effect in the absence of Landau levels

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sheng, D N ^a   Gu, Zheng Cheng ^b   Sun, Kai ^c   Sheng, L ^a,d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ELECTRON; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79960324766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1380     Document Type: Article

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