Ling-Lie Chau Chau is a theoretical physicist with diversified interests that focus on theoretical particle physics and mathematical physics but branch out into other areas as well. She attempts to use general physical and mathematical concepts to provide a unified picture of many physical phenomena.
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In 1980 she predicted the importance of CP non invariance in the beauty particles. Multiparticle production constitutes the majority of high energy physics data. Chau and her collaborators have recently found an explicit expression that has a simple physical interpretation and fits the data beautifully. This simple result sums up the experiences learned in multiparticle production in the last 20 years and anticipates the new data that will be gathered in the foreseeable future. She and collaborators have developed a normal matrix model that produces the wave function for the fractional quantum Hall effect.