Publications

Prof. Robert B. Laughlin
Department of Physics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305



Books

R. B. Laughlin, Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow (Basic Books, New York, 2011).
R. B. Laughlin, The Crime of Reason (Basic Books, New York, 2008).
R. B. Laughlin, Looking for a Hero (Hans Media, Seoul, 2006).
R. B. Laughlin, A Different Universe: Remaking Physics from the Bottom Down (Basic Books, New York, 2005).



Humor and Opinion

R. B. Laughlin, "Hiawatha's Valence Bonding," Annals of Improbable Research, 10, No. 6 (May/June 2004), p. 8.
R. B. Laughlin, "The Cup of the Hand," Science 303, 1475 (2004).
R. B. Laughlin, "Truth, Ownership, and the Scientific Tradition," Physics Today, December 2002, p. 10.
R. B. Laughlin, "The Physical Basis of Computability," Computing in Science and Engineering, 4, 27 (2002).



Refereed Publications

R. B. Laughlin, "Gossamer Superconductivity," Phil. Mag. 86, 1165 (2006).
R. B. Laughlin, "Emergent Relativity," Frontiers in Science: in Celebration of the 80th Birthday of C. N. Yang, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2003).
G. Chapline, R. B. Laughlin and D. I. Santiago, "Emergent Relativity and the Physics of Black Hole Horizons," Analog Models of General Relativity, ed. by M . Visser (World Scientific, Singapore, 2003).
B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano and R. B. Laughlin, "Coordinate Representation of the One-Spinon One-Holon Wavefunction and Spinon-Holon Interaction," Phys. Rev. B 65, 195112 (2002).
B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano and R. B. Laughlin, "Spinon Attraction in Spin-1/2 Antiferromagnetic Chains," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3312 (2001).
G. Chapline, E. Hohlfeld, R. B. Laughlin and D. I. Santiago, "Quantum Phase Transitions and the Breakdown of Classical General Relativity," Phil. Mag. 81, 235 (2001).
R. B. Laughlin, G. G. Lonzarich, P. Monthoux, and D. Pines, "The Quantum Criticality Conundrum," Adv. Phys. 50, 361 (2001).
K. J. Harrington, R. B. Laughlin and S. Liang, "Balanced Branching in Transcription Termination," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98, 5019 (2001).
R. B. Laughlin, D. Pines, J. Schmalien, B. Stojkovic and P. Wolynes, "The Middle Way," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 57, 32 (2000).
S. Chakravarty, R. B. Laughlin, D. K. Morr and C. Nayak, "Hidden Order in the Cuprates," Phys. Rev. B 63, 94503 (2001).
B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano and R. B. Laughlin, "Spectroscopy of Matter Near Criticality," Ann. Phys. 311, 182 (2001).
R. B. Laughlin and D. Pines, "The Theory of Everything," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 97, 28 (2000).
G. Vacca, R. D. Morgan and R. B. Laughlin, "Differential Light Scattering: Probing the Sonoluminescence Collapse," Phys. Rev. E 60, R6303 (1999).
R. B. Laughlin, "Fractional Quantization," Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 863 (1999).
R. B. Laughlin, "Parallels Between Quantum Antiferromagnetism and the Strong Interactions," Proc. of the Inaugural Conference of the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, ed. by Y. M. Cho, J. B. Hong and C. N. Yang (World Scientific, Singapore, 1998).
R. B. Laughlin, D. Giuliano, R. Caracciolo and O. L. White, "Quantum Number Fractionalization in Antiferromagnets," Field Theories for Low-Dimensional Condensed Matter Systems - Spin Systems and Strongly-Correlated Electrons, ed. by G. Morandi, P. Sodano, A. Taglacozzo and V. Tognetti (Springer, Heidelberg, 2000).
R. B. Laughlin, "A Critique of Two Metals," Adv. Phys. 47, 9433 (1998).
R. B. Laughlin, "Magnetic Induction of dx2-y2 + i dxy Order in High-Tc Superconductors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5188 (1998).
R. B. Laughlin, "Evidence for Quasiparticle Decay in Photoemission from Underdoped Cuprates," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1726 (1997).
R. B. Laughlin, "Evidence for Electron Decay in Photoemission from Sr2CuO2Cl2," J. Phys. Chem. Solids 56, 1627 (1995).
R. B. Laughlin, "Numerical Evidence for Electron Decay in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model," J. Low Temp. Phys. 99, 443 (1995).
M. Sigrist, D. B. Bailey and R. B. Laughlin, "Fractional Vortices as Evidence for Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in High-Temperature Superconductors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3249 (1995).
P. Béran, D. Poilblanc and R. B. Laughlin, "Evidence for Composite Nature of Quasiparticles in the 2D t-J Model," Nucl. Phys. B 473, 7071 (1996).
R. B. Laughlin, "d-Wave Superconductivity with a Gap," Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials: The Los Alamos Symposium 1993, ed. by K. S. Bedell, Z. Wang, D. E. Maltzer, A. V. Balatsky and E. Abrahams (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994), p. 566.
R. B. Laughlin, "Tunneling Gap as Evidence for Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in High-Temperature Superconductors," Physica C 234, 280 (1994).
A. M. Tikofsky and R. B. Laughlin, "Response Function of the t-J Model Calculated Using Anyon Techniques," Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 10165 (1994).
J. L. Levy and R. B. Laughlin, "Spin Susceptibility and Gap Structure of the Fractional Statistics Gas," Phys. Rev. B 50, 7107 (1994).
M. R. Beasley, D. Lew and R. B. Laughlin, "Time-Reversal Symmety Breaking in Superconductors: A Proposed Experimental Test," Phys. Rev. B 49, 12330 (1994).
R. B. Laughlin, "New Elementary Particles in Quantum Antiferromagnets and Their Potential Relevance to High-Temperature Superconductivity," Modern Perspectives in Many-Body Physics: Proc. of the 6th Physics Summer School, Canberra, Australia, ed. by M. P. Das and J. Mahanty (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994), p. 294.
A. M. Tikofsky, S. B. Libby and R. B. Laughlin, "Gauge Theory of the 3-Dimensional Chiral Spin Liquid," Nucl. Phys. B 413 [FS], 579 (1994).
P. Béran and R. B. Laughlin, "Fractional Statistics Gas with a Spin and Stability of the Superfluid State," Phys. Rev. B 48, 10382 (1993).
T. W. Lawrence, A. Szöke and R. B. Laughlin, "Absence of T-Violating Circular Dichroism in High-Temperature Superconducctors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1439 (1992).
A. M. Tikofsky, R. B. Laughlin and Z. Zou, "Computation of the Optical Conductivity of the t-J Model Using Anyon Techniques," Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3670 (1992).
Q. Dai, J. L. Levy, A. L. Fetter, C. B. Hanna and R. B. Laughlin, "Quantum Mechanics of the Fractional Statistics Gas: Random Phase Approximation," Phys. Rev. B 46, 5642 (1992).
Z. Zou, J. L. Levy and R. B. Laughlin, "The Macroscopically Doped Chiral Spin Liquid State," Phys. Rev. B 45, 993 (1992).
R. B. Laughlin, "Hole Propagator of the Chrial Spin Liquid State," Phys. Rev. B 45, 400 (1992).
A. L. Fetter, C. B. Hanna and R. B. Laughlin, "Anyons and Superconductivity: Random Phase Approximation," Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 5, 7751 (1991).
R. B. Laughlin, "Current Status of Semionic Pairing Theory of High-Tc Superconductors," Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 5, 1507 (1991).
S. B. Libby, Z. Zou and R. B. Laughlin, "Non-Abelian Monopoles in the Three-Dimensional Chiral Spin Liquid," Nucl. Phys. B 348, 693 (1991).
C. B. Hanna, R. B. Laughlin and A. L. Fetter, "Quantum Mechanics of the Fractional Statistics Gas: Particle-Hole Interaction," Phys. Rev. B 43, 309 (1991).
Z. Zou and R. B. Laughlin, "Charged Excitations of the Chiral Spin Liquid State," Phys. Rev. B 42, 4073 (1990).
C. B. Hanna, R. B. Laughlin and A. L. Fetter, "Quantum Mechanics of the Fractional Statistics Gas: Hartree-Fock Approximation" Phys. Rev. B 40, 8745 (1989).
R. B. Laughlin, "Fractional Quantization in High-Temperature Superconductivity," Mechanisms of High-Temperature Superconductivity, ed. by H. Kamimura and A. Oshiyama (Springer, Heidelberg, 1989), p. 76.
R. B. Laughlin, "Spin Hamiltonian for Which the Quantum Hall Wavefunction is Exact," Ann. Phys. (NY) 191, 163 (1989).
V. Kalmeyer and R. B. Laughlin, "Theory of the Spin Liquid State of the Heisenberg Antiferromagnet," Phys. Rev. B 39, 11879 (1989).
R. B. Laughlin, "Fractional Statistics in the Quantum Hall Effect," Two-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, ed. by Zi-Zhao Gan and Zhao-Bin Su (Gordon and Breach, London, 1989), p. 199. [Reprinted in Fractional Statistics and Anyon Superconductivity, ed. by F. Wilzcek (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990), p. 262.
A. L. Fetter, C. B. Hanna and R. B. Laughlin, "The Random Phase Approximation in the Fractional Statistics Gas," Phys. Rev. B 39, 9679 (1989).
R. B. Laughlin, "The Relationship Between High-Temperature Superconductivity and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," Science 242, 525 (1988).
R. B. Laughlin, "Superconducting Ground State of Noninteracting Particles Obeying Fractional Statistics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 2677 (1988).
R. B. Laughlin and C. B. Hanna, "Dilute Fermi Liquid of Polarons in Copper Oxide Superconductors," Novel Superconductivity, ed. by S. A. Wolf and V. Z. Kresin (Plenum, New York, 1987), p. 553.
R. B. Laughlin, "Electrical Resistivity as Quantum Chaos," Chaos 87, ed. by M. Van Duong (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1987) [Nucl. Phys. B, Suppl. 2], p. 213.
V. Kalmeyer and R. B. Laughlin, "Equivalence of the Resonating Valence Bond and Fractional Quantum Hall States," Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 2095 (1987).
R. H. Howell et al., "Positronium Time-of-Flight sxpectroscopy of Dissimilar Metals," Phys. Rev. B 35, 9805 (1987).
V. Kalmeyer and R. B. Laughlin, "Differential Conduction in Three-Dimensional Resonant Tunneling," Phys. Rev. B 35, 9805 (1987).
R. B. Laughlin, "Elementary Theory: The Incompressible Quantum Fluid," The Quantum Hall Effect, ed. by R. E. Prange and S. M. Girvin (Springer, New York, 1987), p. 233.
C. B. Hanna and R. B. Laughlin, "Oscillations in the Current-Voltage Characteristics of GaAs-AlGaAs Tunnel Junctions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2547 (1986).
C. B. Hanna, E. S. Hellman and R. B. Laughlin, "The Mechanism of Current Modulation by Optic Phonon Emission in Heterojunction Tunneling Experiments," Phys. Rev. B 34, 545 (1986).
R. B. Laughlin, "Destruction of the Fractional Quantum Hall State by Disorder," Surf. Sci. 170, 167 (1986).
R. B. Laughlin, "Temperature Dependence of Interatomic Forces in the Thomas Fermi Approximation," Phys. Rev. A 33, 510 (1986).
E. S. Hellman, J. S. Harris, C. B. hanna and R. B. Laughlin, "One-Dimensional Polaron Effects and Current Inhomogeneities in Sequential Phonon Emission," Physica B-C 334, 41 (1985).
R. B. Laughlin, "Scaling of Conductivities in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," Phys. Rev. B 32, 1311 (1985).
R. B. Laughlin, "Quasiparticle Aggregation in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," Proc. of the 17th Intl. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, ed. by D. J. Chadi and W. A. Harrison (Springer, New York, 1985), p. 255.
R. B. Laughlin, "Excitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," Physica B 126, 254 (1984).
R. B. Laughlin, "Fractional Quantization of the Hall conductance," Two-Dimensional Systems, Heterostructures and Superlattices, ed. by G. Bauer, F. Kuchar and H. Heinrich (Springer, Heidelberg, 1984), p. 285.
R. B. Laughlin, "The Gauge Argument for Accurate Quantization of the Hall Conductance," ibid., p. 272.
R. B. Laughlin, "Levitation of Extended State Bands in a Strong magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 2304 (1984).
R. B. Laughlin, "Primitive and Composite Ground States in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," Surf. Sci. 141, 11 (1984).
R. B. Laughlin, "The Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations," Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1395 (1983).
R. B. Laughlin, "Quantized Motion of Three 2-Dimensional Electrons in a Strong Magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. B 27, 3389 (1983).
R. B. Laughlin, "Universal Behavior in the Electrical Conductivity of Strong-Scattering Expanded Fluid Metals," Phys. Rev. B 26, 7019 (1982).
R. B. Laughlin, "Exchange Theory of Resistivity Saturation," Phys. Rev. B 26, 3479 (1982).
R. B. Laughlin, "Helium Scattering from the GaAs (110) Surface and the Generation of Helium-Surface Interactions," Phys. Rev. B 25, 2222 (1982).
R. B. Laughlin, "The Quantized Hall Conductivity in Two Dimensions," Phys. Rev. B 23, 5632 (1981).
R. B. Laughlin, "The Optical Absorption Edge of Silicon Dioxide," Phys. Rev. B 22, 3021 (1980).


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