Name of the Journal:
Interfaces, Quantum Wells and Superlattices
Proceedings, Conference, Subtitle or Series:
in NATO ASI on Interfaces, Quantum Wells and Superlattices
Year of Publication:
1988
Volume:
179
Pages:
333-346
Editor Info:
R. Leavens and R. Taylor
Publisher Name, Address and Year:
Springer US, Plenum, New York, 1988
Abstract:
We saw in my previous lecture on collective excitations that it was quite useful to study analogies between the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) and superfluidity and superconductivity in films. Superfluids and superconductors are characterized by a spontaneously broken gauge symmetry and an associated order parameter. The purpose of this lecture is to investigate the question of whether or not there exists an order parameter which describes the FQHE state, possibly associated with some type of symmetry breaking.
DOI Link: