Horst Ludwig Störmer coauthored measurements of a new quantum Hall effect plateau at one-third filling of the lowest Landau level. The high-mobility two-dimensional electron sample showed Hall electrical resistance together with reduced longitudinal electrical resistance. The 1982 report tentatively discussed crystalline electronic explanations; the observation itself was the decisive experimental result. It motivated theories in which interactions organize electrons into a correlated quantum fluid.[ref]
Two-Dimensional Magnetotransport in the Extreme Quantum Limit by Daniel Chee Tsui and others. Physical Review Letters 48, 1559 (1982), abstract and proposed interpretation
Portrait of Horst Ludwig Störmer
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Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German-American physicist known for his groundbreaking work in condensed matter physics, particularly in the field of quantum physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998, along with Robert B. Laughlin and Daniel C. Tsui, for their discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect. This phenomenon occurs in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, leading to the quantization of the Hall conductance in fractions of integers.