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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal thirds to Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui for discovering a new quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official 1998 summary: equal thirds; new quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
Robert B. Laughlin Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Robert B. Laughlin proposed correlated many-electron wave functions explaining important states of the fractional quantum Hall effect. The variational construction strongly suppresses configurations in which electrons approach one another while keeping them within the lowest Landau level. Its excited states behave as localized disturbances carrying a fraction of the electron electric charge. The theory connects a microscopic correlated state with an incompressible quantum fluid, rather than interpreting the fractional plateau as an ordinary filled electron band.[ref]
Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations by Robert Laughlin. Physical Review Letters 50, 1395 (1983), ground-state and excited-state variational construction
Portrait of Robert B. Laughlin
. Markus Pössel, own photograph at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 6 July 2012. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.