"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".
Colloquium
Friday, November 19, 2004
4:00 PM
Physics Building, Room 204
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