>Date: 25 May 1999 22:23:52 -0000 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "-PhysicsWeb-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: IoP >Subject: Latest PhysicsWeb Summaries (text) > > ---------------------------------------------------------- >/ PHYSICSWEB: E-mail alert >\ (http://PhysicsWeb.org) > ========================================================== > ---------------------------------------------------------- >| News > ========================================================== > * e/5 particles discovered: (25 May) > A team of physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science > in Israel has discovered a particle with a charge of e/5, > where e is the charge on an electron. Moty Heiblum and > co-workers made the discovery by studying the behaviour > of low-temperature two-dimensional electron gases in high > magnetic fields. The findings lend further weight to the > "quasiparticle" theory developed by Robert Laughlin of > Stanford University to describe the fractional quantum > Hall effect, and for which he shared last year's Nobel > prize with Horst Störmer and Daniel Tsui. > [ http://PhysicsWeb.org/article/news/3/5/11 ] > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------- >/ This alert was generated according to your settings. >| To change your alerting settings visit User Options at >\ http://PhysicsWeb.org/users/options/alert > ========================================================== > >Copyright (C)IOP Publishing Ltd. 1999. All rights reserved. >
