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Half‐Filled Landau Level Yields Intriguing Data and Theory

JUL 01, 1993

Surprises abound when strong magnetic fields are imposed on two‐dimensional electron gases at low temperature. When the electron density approaches an integral multiple ν of the density of magnetic flux quanta threading the plane, the resistivity of the electron system begins to vanish and its Hall resistance takes on the quantized value h/ve2 to a spectacular level of precision. That’s the integral quantum Hall effect, for whose serendipitous discovery at Grenoble in 1980 Klaus von Klitzing won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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