Talk:Fractional quantum Hall effect

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Clearly something interesting happened with this discovery, but it is not remotely obvious to the layperson what that might be. Could somebody who understands this please tell the rest of the world what this means, in real-person terms? It got a Nobel Prize, and this should merit some sort of explication. 68.50.169.194 (talk) 03:37, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that this should be classified as low importance. It won a noble prize afterall! Surely some indication that physicists at least regard it as important. Grj23 (talk) 07:55, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also think that it's a consensus view by now that composite fermions are the better model. See http://www.phys.psu.edu/~jain/cf.html for example. Grj23 (talk) 07:55, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The importance rating doesn't really mean anything. No one pays attention to whether an article is "low" or "mid" importance. Anyone capable of editing a somewhat-technical article like this will be able to judge for themselves how important and worthwhile it is, and that's exactly what happens. :-) --Steve (talk) 08:26, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I've created a video to help explain QHE. It's on the Quantum Hall Effect page. I think a similar video should maybe appear here. Any thoughts Grj23 (talk) 07:23, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]