Quantum Hall systems : braid groups, composite fermions, and fractional charge /

This text presents the wide range of topics in two-dimensional physics of quantum Hall systems, especially fractional quantum Hall states. It covers the fundamental problems of two-dimensional quantum statistics in terms of topology and the Chern-Simons theory.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacak, Lucjan, 1952- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:International series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England) ; 119.
Oxford science publications.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 2. Topological methods for description of quantum many-body systems
  • 3. Quantization of many-particle systems and quantum statistics in lower dimensions
  • 4. Topological approach to composite particles in two dimensions
  • 5. Many-body methods for Chern-Simons systems
  • 6. Anyon superconductivity
  • 7. The fractional quantum Hall effect in composite fermion systems
  • 8. Quantum Hall systems on a sphere
  • 9. Pseudopotential approach to the fractional quantum Hall states.