Composite Fermions (Hardcover)

Preface; List of symbols and abbreviations; 1. Overview; 2. Quantum Hall effect; 3. Landau levels; 4. Theory of the IQHE; 5. Foundations of the composite fermion theory; 6. Microscopic verifications; 7. Theory of the FQHE; 8. Incompressible ground states and their excitations; 9. Topology and quantizations; 10. Composite fermion Fermi sea; 11. Composite fermions with spin; 12. Non-composite fermion approaches; 13. Bilayer FQHE; 14. Edge physics; 15. Composite fermion crystals; Appendices: A. Gaussian integral; B. Useful operator identities; C. Point flux tube; D. Adiabatic insertion of a point flux; E. Berry phase; F. Second quantization; G. Green's functions, spectral function, tunneling; H. Off-diagonal long-range order; I. Total energies and energy gaps; J. Lowest Landau level projection; K. Metropolis Monte Carlo; L. Composite fermion diagonalization; References; Index.