nLab Steven M. Girvin

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Selected writings

On the quantum Hall effect:

• Richard E. Prange, Steven M. Girvin (eds.): The Quantum Hall Effect, Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics, Springer (1986, 1990) [doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3350-3]

Early proposal to model the fractional quantum Hall effect by abelian Chern-Simons theory:

• Steven M. Girvin, around (10.7.15) in: Summary, Omissions and Unanswered Questions, Chapter 10 of: The Quantum Hall Effect, Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics, Springer (1986, 1990) [doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3350-3]

• Steven M. Girvin, A. 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]

Specifically on the fractional quantum Hall effect and the Laughlin wavefunction:

• Steven M. Girvin: Introduction to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Séminaire Poincaré 2 (2004) 53–74, reprinted in The Quantum Hall Effect, Progress in Mathematical Physics 45, Birkhäuser (2005) $[$pdf, doi:10.1007/3-7643-7393-8_4$]$

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