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The Physics of Semiconductors

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The energy levels of the solid and its optical and electronic properties depend on external electric and magnetic fields. In high magnetic fields and at low temperatures the quantum Hall effects give evidence for new states of matter in many-body systems.

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Grundmann, M. (2010). External Fields. In: The Physics of Semiconductors. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13884-3_12

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