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Microwaving and stirring the quantum Hall spaghetti

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Michael M. Fogler, Physics 4, 39 (2011) – Published May 16, 2011
An ingenious experiment has probed the collective response of the quantum Hall stripe phase.
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A defect controls transport in graphene

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Patrik Recher and Björn Trauzettel, Physics 4, 25 (2011) – Published March 28, 2011
A line defect that seems to naturally form in graphene grown on a nickel substrate may provide additional control of transport characteristics.
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Carbon nanotubes help pairs survive a breakup

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Nadya Mason, Physics 3, 3 (2010) – Published January 11, 2010
A new experiment shows that entangled electron pairs can be spatially split into different arms of a carbon nanotube. Is a nanotube quantum teleporter on the horizon?
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Quasiparticles do the twist

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Joel E. Moore, Physics 2, 82 (2009) – Published October 5, 2009
A theoretical analysis of recent experiments suggests that a key feature of a topological quantum computer—the unusual statistics of quasiparticles in the quantum Hall effect—may finally have been observed.
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Atypical is normal at the metal-insulator transition

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Thomas Vojta, Physics 2, 66 (2009) – Published August 3, 2009
Quantum states in disordered solids are characterized by wild spatial fluctuations. As a result, the behavior of a single typical wave function differs markedly from the ensemble average.
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A view from the edge

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H. A. Fertig, Physics 2, 15 (2009) – Published February 23, 2009
Measurements of the heat transport at the edges of two-dimensional electron systems appear to provide explanations about the quantum Hall state that have not been forthcoming via charge transport experiments.