Graduate Student Seminar

Strongly correlated electronic systems give us access to highly non-trivial phases with non-trivial topological orders.  Such phases have elementary excitations with fractional charge and anyonic statistics. Understanding the origin of such elementary degrees of freedom is crucial, as they are believed to play a pivotal role in building topologically robust quantum computers. Fractional quantum Hall effect gives us access to a zoo of such states in physical systems under magnetic field. In this talk we will discuss many such fractional quantum Hall states, which are experimentally observed and discuss the classification schemes for several such states, with different topological orders.