Robert Laughlin’s Revolutionary Discovery Of The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Robert Laughlin, a New Orleans native, revolutionized physics with his groundbreaking research on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). His discovery of pseudoparticles and quasiparticles, which exhibit fractional statistics, provided a new perspective on quantum many-body systems. The FQHE, observed in experiments using thin semiconductor layers, became a model system for studying quantum phenomena due…