TY - BOOK AU - Yoshioka,Daijiro TI - Quantum Hall Effect T2 - Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, SN - 9783662050163 AV - QC173.45-173.458 U1 - 530.41 23 KW - Physics KW - Quantum theory KW - Optical materials KW - Nanotechnology KW - Condensed Matter Physics KW - Optical and Electronic Materials KW - Quantum Physics N1 - 1. Discovery of the Quantum Hall Effect -- 2. Two-Dimensional Electrons in a Magnetic Field -- 3. The Integer Quantum Hall Effect -- 4. The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect -- 5. Composite-Particle Mean-Field Theory -- 6. Spin and Pseudospin Freedom -- 7. Even-Denominator States -- 8. Electron States at the Sample Edge -- 9. Higher Landau Levels -- Answers to Exercises -- References; License restrictions may limit access N2 - The quantum Hall effects remains one of the most important subjects to have emerged in condensed matter physics over the past 20 years. The fractional quantum Hall effect, in particular, has opened up a new paradigm in the study of strongly correlated electrons, and it has been shown that new concepts, such as fractional statistics, anyon, chiral Luttinger liquid and composite particles, are realized in two-dimensional electron systems. This book explains the quantum Hall effects together with these new concepts starting from elementary quantum mechanics. Thus, graduate students can use this book to gain an overall understanding of these phenomena UR - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio11318530 ER -