"Electronic Liquid Crystals: Novel Phases of Electrons in Two Dimensions"Alan Dorsey , University of Florida [Host: Michael Fowler]
ABSTRACT:
There is growing experimental evidence that electrons confined to two dimensions (in a semiconductor heterostructure, for instance) at low temperatures and high magnetic fields
can display a plethora of partially ordered
phases which have the same symmetries as classical liquid crystal phases, such as nematics and
smectics. I will review the experimental evidence for these novel quantum phases of matter, discuss several analogous classical systems, and motivate some of the theoretical models for these "quantum
Hall liquid crystals".
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Colloquium Friday, November 19, 2004 4:00 PM Physics Building, Room 204 Note special time. Note special room. |
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