quantum Hall effect
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a quantum-mechanical version of the Hall effect
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Edwin Hall
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- Stack Exchange tag
- physics.stackexchange.com/tags/quantum-hall-effect
- discoverer or inventor
- Klaus von Klitzing
- time of discovery or invention
- 1980-00-00
- Commons category
- Quantum Hall effect
- short name
- QHE
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Encyclopedic overview
The quantum Hall effect (or integer quantum Hall effect) is a quantized version of the Hall effect which is observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, in which the Hall resistance Rxy exhibits steps that take on the quantized values
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