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Daniel C. Tsui coauthored the 1982 observation of a fractional quantum Hall effect. High-mobility electrons confined to two dimensions exhibited a Hall plateau with electrical resistance $3h/e^2$ when the lowest spin-polarized Landau level was one-third filled. A simultaneous minimum in longitudinal electrical resistance distinguished a collective electronic state from an ordinary smooth change in transport. The result created a problem beyond the noninteracting integer Hall picture.^[ref]

A physicist who studied condensed matter at Princeton.^[ref]

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 $3h/e^2$ 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]

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Daniel Tsui, Horst Störmer and Arthur Gossard reported the effect in 1982. They grew gallium arsenide–aluminium gallium arsenide layers by molecular beam epitaxy, separating the two-dimensional electron gas from its semiconductor doping. They cut Hall bars and made indium contacts. Low-field measurements established number density and charge carrier mobility. A perpendicular magnetic field sweep measured transverse and longitudinal sheet resistivities at several temperatures. Cooling sharpened the plateau near $3h/e^2$ and the longitudinal minimum at filling factor $1/3$; integer plateaus provided an internal comparison. The longitudinal minimum remained finite at the lowest temperature: zero-temperature vanishing was unresolved. This established anomalous transport, without directly measuring excitation electric charge.^[ref]

The two readouts test different statements. A single intersection with $R_H=3R_K$ would also occur on the smooth classical relation $R_H=B/(n_{s}e)$ at $n_{s}h/(eB)=1/3$. A quantum Hall plateau instead persists over a magnetic field interval. Comparing transverse and longitudinal signals helps distinguish that plateau from a contact-placement artefact; the quantum Hall conductivity tensor inversion quantifies the contamination when longitudinal sheet resistivity is nonzero.

Later, 1997 shot noise measurements associated with quantum tunnelling at filling factor $1/3$ tested the excitation electric charge separately, finding $e/3$. That is a different observable from a Hall plateau.^[ref]