(Ebook) Quantum Hall Effects: Field Theoretical Approach and Related Topics by Zyun Francis Ezawa ISBN 9810234309

(Ebook) Quantum Hall Effects: Field Theoretical Approach and Related Topics by Zyun Francis Ezawa ISBN 9810234309

Tremendous theoretical and experimental developments have recently been made in the sphere of the quantum Hall effect. Among them a field-theoretical approach has presented a fascinating unified physical picture. A most significant feature of the quantum Hall system is that exotic phenomena associated with statistics transmutation are realized. For instance, an electron may undergo Bose condensation by making a charge-flux composite, and fractionally charged excitations (anyons) emerge as quasiparticles. A pedagogical and self-contained discussion on monolayer and bilayer quantum Hall systems is given in a field-theoretical framework, together with an introduction to quantum field theory, anyon physics and Chern-Simons gauge theory. Only knowledge of quantum mechanics is assumed.