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Fractional quantum Hall effect indicates novel quantum liquid

JUL 01, 1983

A quite unanticipated extension of the quantized Hall effect appears to have provided us a glimpse of an exotic new state of matter—a two‐dimensional quantum liquid of electrons, rendered essentially incompressible by the density quantization of its ground states, whose excitations are quasiparticles of fractional electric charge.

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