Debut of the quarter electron

Eduardo Fradkin
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Eduardo Fradkin: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA. efradkin@uiuc.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7189, 823-823

Abstract: A particle-like object with a quarter of an electron's charge is the latest find in a hotbed of quantum-physical experimentation, the fractional quantum Hall fluid. Its significance is more than esoteric.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/452823a

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