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Colloquium


Colloquium



3:30 PM, Friday, February 8, 2002


Room 155, Chem-Phys Building







Dr. James P. Eisenstein


Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy
California Institute of Technology





The Quantum Hall Effect Meets Bose Condensation





Surprisingly enough, when two layers of electrons are close enough together they can take on properties reminiscent of both superfluid helium and superconducting Josephson junctions and at the same time display a quantized Hall effect. This exotic state of affairs arises when Coulomb interactions join forces with a magnetic field to convert the bilayer electron gas into a Bose condensate of excitons. In this talk I will discuss recent experiments on this fascinating many-body system and speculate on what it might have still in store.



*** Refreshments served at 3:15 PM ***


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