Correlated electron fluids can exhibit a startling array of complex phases, among which one
of the more surprising is the electron nematic, a translationally invariant metallic phase with …

In principle, a complex assembly of strongly interacting electrons can self-organize into a
wide variety of collective states, but relatively few such states have been identified in …

The topological physics of quantum Hall states is efficiently encoded in purely topological
quantum field theories of the Chern-Simons type. The reliable inclusion of low-energy …

We derive an effective field theory for the isotropic-nematic quantum phase transition of
fractional quantum Hall states. We demonstrate that for a system with an isotropic …

Abstract Systems of confined electrons are found everywhere in nature in the form of atoms
where the orbiting electrons are confined by the Coulomb attraction of the nucleus …

Experimental and theoretical research on the integer quantum Hall effect is reviewed,
together with other transport phenomena in a two-dimensional electron gas in a quantizing …

At small momenta, the Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman (GMP) mode in the fractional quantum
Hall (FQH) effect can be identified with gapped nematic fluctuations in the isotropic FQH …

The recently discovered anisotropy of the longitudinal resistance of two-dimensional
electrons near half filling of high Landau levels is found to persist to much higher …

Transport measurements on two-dimensional electron systems in moderate magnetic fields
suggest the existence of a spontaneously orientationally ordered, compressible liquid state …

We present a theory of the isotropic-nematic quantum phase transition in the composite
Fermi liquid arising in half-filled Landau levels. We show that the quantum phase transition …