Reduction and emergence in the fractional quantum Hall state

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.10.004zbMath1329.81429OpenAlexW2166293308WikidataQ62678779 ScholiaQ62678779MaRDI QIDQ905678

Mark Pexton, Tom Lancaster

Publication date: 27 January 2016

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/16852/1/16852.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryquantum Hall effectcondensed matter physicsemergencemany-body quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Physics (00A79)

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