Methods to measure the charge of the quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect

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Abstract
We propose various experimental circumstances in which the longitudinal resistance of a two-dimensional electron gas in a high transverse magnetic field depends in a simple and characteristic way on the charge of the quasiparticle excitations. We propose that experiments of this sort could be used to directly measure the charge of the quasiparticle excitations which carry the dissipative part of the current. While it has been persuasively argued by Laughlin that the Hall conductance itself measures the quasiparticle charge, the connection is indirect, since the Hall current is carried by the condensate, not by the quasiparticles.