Physical Society Colloquium

One of the miracles of modern technology is the ability to squeeze electrons into layers so thin that they behave as if the world were two-dimensional. The interesting behavior of electrons living in a flat world is responsible for the quantum Hall effects, this year the subject of a second Nobel prize. I will present an introduction to these systems, and I will describe some of our work which shows how lowering the density of electrons in the two-dimensional layer dramatically changes the dynamics of electrons in flatland.

Thursday, February 4th 1999, 16:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 114