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Can the ν=1/3 Laughlin liquid freeze?

Posted in Journal Articles on September 30, 2025 at 10:31 am by JCCMP

Instability of Laughlin FQH liquids into gapless power-law correlated states with continuous exponents in ideal Chern bands: rigorous results from plasma mapping
Authors: Saranyo Moitra and Inti Sodemann Villadiego
arXiv:2509.18265, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.18265

Recommended with a commentary by Trithep Devakul , Stanford University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2025_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2025_01

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