Fiona J. Burnell

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Fiona Burnell will finish her Ph.D. at Princeton University, NJ, in the summer of 2009, and will hold a post-doctoral research fellowship at All Soul’s College, Oxford, beginning in the fall of this year. She is currently a graduate fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA. Her research interests include frustrated quantum magnetism and spin liquids, topological phases, and the quantum Hall effect.


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Fractional charges fly between planes

The fractional quantum Hall effect, thought to be special to two dimensions, may also flourish in three, providing a possible explanation for anomalies observed in certain 3D materials in high magnetic fields. Read More »