1. DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT Open Access Author: Zhao, Jianyun Title: DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT Graduate Program: Physics Keywords: fractional quantum Hall effectdiffusion Monte Carlodensity functional theory File: Download Final_Dissertation.pdf Committee Members: Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorJainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-ChairReka Z Albert, Committee MemberEric W Hudson, Committee MemberIsmaila Dabo, Outside Member