New Kinds of Quantum Statistics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-13 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Abstract
I review the quantum kinematics of identical particles, which suggests new possibilities, beyond bosons and fermions, in 2+1 dimensions; and how simple flux-charge constructions embody the new possibilities, leading to both abelian and nonabelian anyons. I briefly allude to experimental realizations, and also advertise a spinor construction of nonabelian statistics, that has a 3+1 dimensional extension.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.5097,
title = {New Kinds of Quantum Statistics},
author = {Frank Wilczek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.5097},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Talk at Seminaire Poincare (Bourbaphy), Paris, December 2007. To be published in the Proceedings. 6 pages, 4 figures. v2: Minor typos corrected, figures redrawn. v3: 2 more minor typos. Argh