For what effect was the 1998 Nobel Prize awarded?
General Relativity
Superconductivity
Quantum Hall effect
Fractional Quantum Hall effect
Answer
The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Horst Störmer, Robert Laughlin, and Daniel Tsui for their discovery of the Fractional Quantum Hall effect. The Fractional Quantum Hall effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that occurs in two-dimensional electron gases subjected to a strong magnetic field. It is characterized by a quantized Hall conductivity, which is a fractional multiple of the fundamental unit of conductance,.
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