2002/10/10 by Keshav N. Shrivastava, Shrivastava, Keshav N.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic properties of thin films #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0210238
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Laughlin has found "exactly" the wave function which is ascribed to an excitation of fractional charge, such as e/3. We find that the exactness of the wave function is not destroyed by changing the charge to some other quantity such as the magnetic field. Thus e/3 and H can be replaced by e and H/3. Therefore, the wave function need not belong to quasiparticles of charge e/3.