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Selected writings

On the fractional quantum Hall effect and early discussion of its effective description by abelian Chern-Simons theory:

• Steven M. Girvin, Allan H. MacDonald, around (10) of: Off-diagonal long-range order, oblique confinement, and the fractional quantum Hall effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 12 (1987) (1987) 1252-1255 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1252]

Computation of the (tiny) spin-orbit coupling in graphene:

• Hongki Min, J. E. Hill, Nikolai A. Sinitsyn, B. R. Sahu, Leonard Kleinman, Allan H. MacDonald: Intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit interactions in graphene sheets, Phys. Rev. B 74 (2006) 165310 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.74.165310, arXiv:cond-mat/0606504]

On the anomalous Hall effect and its explanation via Berry curvature of the Brillouin torus of the crystalline material:

• Naoto Nagaosa, Jairo Sinova, Shigeki Onoda, Allan H. MacDonald, N. P. Ong: Anomalous Hall effect, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82 (2010) 1539 [arXiv:0904.4154, doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1539]

On the quantum anomalous Hall effect:

• Cui-Zu Chang, Chao-Xing Liu, Allan H. MacDonald: Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect, Rev. Mod. Phys. 95 (2023) 011002 [arXiv:2202.13902, doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.95.011002]

• Nicolás Morales-Durán, Jingtian Shi, Allan H. MacDonald: Fractionalized electrons in moiré materials, Nature Reviews Physics 6 (2024) 349–351 [doi:10.1038/s42254-024-00718-z]

• Long Yu, Allan H. MacDonald, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, Xiaodong Xu: The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, Nature Reviews Materials 9 (2024) 455–-459 [doi:10.1038/s41578-024-00694-x]

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