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Who observed the fractionalized charge that Laughlin's wavefunction could explain?

  • Sir J.J. Thomson

  • Robert Millikan

  • Ernest Rutherford

  • the team of Störmer and Tsui

Answer

The fractionalized charge observed by the team of Störmer and Tsui provided experimental evidence supporting Laughlin's wavefunction theory. Laughlin's theory proposed that electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas could exhibit fractional charge behavior under strong magnetic fields. This fractionalization arises due to the quantization of Hall conductance and the formation of quasiparticles known as quasiholes.
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