Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations

Abstract

This Letter presents variational ground-state and excited-state wave functions which describe the condensation of a two-dimensional electron gas into a new state of matter.Received 22 February 1983DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1395©1983 American Physical Society