No End of Tricks: Electrons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Abstract

In the strong magnetic field fractional quantum Hall regime, electrons in a two-dimensional electron system are confined to their lowest Landau level. Because of the macroscopic Landau level degeneracy nearly all physical properties at low energies and temperatures are then entirely determined by electron-electron interactions. The properties of these non-Fermi-liquid electronic systems continue to surprise. In this article we briefly survey some recent advances in the physics of the fractional Hall regime.