nLab Robert B. Laughlin

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Selected writings

On the (fractional) quantum Hall effect:

• Robert B. Laughlin, Quantized Hall conductivity in two dimensions, Phys. Rev. B 23 5632(R) (1981) [doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.23.5632]

and introducing the Laughlin wavefunction:

• Robert B. Laughlin, Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50 (1983) 1395 $[$doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1395$]$

On quantum spin liquids (then called “resonating valence bond states”):

• V. Kalmeyer, Robert B. Laughlin, Equivalence of the resonating-valence-bond and fractional quantum Hall states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 2095 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2095]

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