Topological Aspects of Quantum Hall Fluid and Berry Phase

Abstract

We have analyzed here the recent development towards our understanding of the Integral and Fractional Quantum Hall effect. It has been pointed out that the chiral anomaly and Berry phase approach embraces in a unified way the whole spectrum of quantum Hall systems with their various characteristic features. This formalism also helps us to understand the edge states observed in Hall fluids. It is argued that Hall fluids with even denominator filling factor leads to the non-Abelian Berry phase.