Condensed Matter Seminar

Date
Jul 18, 2011, 1:30 pm6:30 pm
Location
PCTS Seminar Room

Details

Event Description
Abstract: The fundamental collective degree of freedom of fractional quantum Hall states is identified as a unimodular two-dimensional spatial metric that characterizes the local shape of the correlations of the incompressible fluid. Its quantum fluctuations are controlled by a topologically-quantized“guiding-center spinâ€