The transport of electric charge through most materials is well described in terms of their electronic band structure. The present book deals with two cases where the charge transport in a solid is not described by the simple band structure picture of the solid. These cases are …
Under the influence of a magnetic field, at low temperatures, charged particles confined in two-dimensional systems exhibit a remarkable range of macroscopic quantum phenomena such as the quantum Hall effects. A hallmark of these phenomena is the presence of unidirectional, topo…
Both experimentally and theoretically, the study of two-dimensional electron systems in strong magnetic fields is one of the most interesting topics in condensed-matter physics. In the presence of strong magnetic fields and low temperature the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQH…
The fractional quantum Hall effect is a prime example of collective behavior of strongly interacting electrons. Its excitations (quasiparticles) carry a fractional charge, and are expected to obey fractional statistics. While odd denominator fractional states are expected to hav…
A pedagogical and self-contained discussion on monolayer and bilayer quantum Hall systems is given in this volume in a field-theoretical framework, with an introduction to quantum field theory, anyon physics and Chem-Simons gauge theory.
by Girvin, Steven M., Prange, Richard E.
fromGraduate texts in contemporary physics
Part I: Concepts in fractional statistics, part II: States of anyon matter, part III: Reprinted papers
The study of the correlated motion of electrons in solids is of increasing importance in condensed matter physics. In the past few years, the discovery of high-temperature superconductors has stimulated an enormous theoretical effort in this area, building on earlier theories of…
