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Anyons are particlelike excitations of strongly correlated phases of matter with fractional statistics, characterized by nontrivial changes in the wave function, generalizing Bose and Fermi statistics, when two of them are interchanged.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 M. Aguado , G. K. Brennen , F. Verstraete , J. I. Cirac

Fractionalized quasiparticles - anyons - bear a special role in present-day physics. At the same time, they display properties of interest both foundational, with quantum numbers that transcend the spin-statistics laws, and applied,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ian Affleck , Eran Sela

Anyons, quasiparticles living in two-dimensional spaces with exotic exchange statistics, can serve as the fundamental units for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, experimentally demonstrating anyonic statistics is a challenge due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Annie Jihyun Park , Emma McKay , Dawei Lu , Raymond Laflamme

The operational formalism to quantum mechanics seeks to base the theory on a firm foundation of physically well-motivated axioms [1]. It has succeeded in deriving the Feynman rules [2] for general quantum systems. Additional elaborations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Klil H. Neori , Philip Goyal

Fermions are fundamental particles which obey seemingly bizarre quantum-mechanical principles, yet constitute all the ordinary matter that we inhabit. As such, their study is heavily motivated from both fundamental and practical incentives.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Andrew Zhao

A key property of topologically ordered systems, such as Quantum Hall states, is the existence of excitations obeying fractional quantum statistics - anyons. We develop a theory for multicomponent counterflow states where an ordinary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Jun-Xiao Hui , T. H. Hansson , Egor Babaev

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behavior called topological order which is characterized by non-local correlations that depend on the system topology. Such systems can exhibit remarkable phenomena such as…

Fractional quantum Hall states host emergent anyons with exotic exchange statistics, but obtaining direct access to their topological properties in real systems remains a challenge. Neural-network wavefunctions provide a flexible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Andres Perez Fadon , David Pfau , James S. Spencer , Wan Tong Lou , Titus Neupert , W. M. C. Foulkes

We derive single-particle and two-particle correlators of anyons in the presence of a magnetic field in the lowest Landau level. We show that the two-particle correlator exhibits signatures of fractional statistics which can distinguish…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 Smitha Vishveshwara , Michael Stone , Diptiman Sen

Topological phases exhibit a plethora of striking phenomena including disorder-robust localization and propagation of waves of various nature. Of special interest are the transitions between the different topological phases which are…

Anyons are 2D or 1D quantum particles with intermediate statistics, interpolating between bosons and fermions. We study the ground state of a large number N of 2D anyons, in a scaling limit where the statistics parameter is proportional to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Douglas Lundholm , Nicolas Rougerie

We describe a plausible-speculative form of quantum computation which exploits particle (fermionic, bosonic) statistics, under a generalized, counterfactual interpretation thereof. In the idealized situation of an isolated system, it seems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Castagnoli , Dalida Monti

Low-dimensional quantum systems can host anyons, particles with exchange statistics that are neither bosonic nor fermionic. Despite indications of a wealth of exotic phenomena, the physics of anyons in one dimension (1D) remains largely…

Studies on experimental realization of two-dimensional anyons in terms of quasiparticles have been restricted, so far, to only anyons on the plane. It is known, however, that the geometry and topology of space can have significant effects…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-12 Morris Brooks , Mikhail Lemeshko , Douglas Lundholm , Enderalp Yakaboylu

We describe a continuous-variable scheme for simulating the Kitaev lattice model and for detecting statistics of abelian anyons. The corresponding quantum optical implementation is solely based upon Gaussian resource states and Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jing Zhang , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng , Peter van Loock

Anyons are quasiparticles with fractional statistics, bridging between fermions and bosons. We propose an experimental setup to measure the statistical angle of topological anyons emitted from a quantum point contact (QPC) source. The setup…

The quantization of charged matter system coupled to Chern-Simons gauge fields is analyzed in a covariant gauge fixing, and gauge invariant physical anyon operators satisfying fractional statistics are constructed in a symmetric phase,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hyun Seok Yang , Bum-Hoon Lee

Topological quantum states of matter, both Abelian and non-Abelian, are characterized by excitations whose wavefunctions undergo non-trivial statistical transformations as one excitation is moved (braided) around another. Topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

Anyons emerge as elementary excitations in low-dimensional quantum systems and exhibit behavior distinct from bosons or fermions. Previous models of anyons in one dimension (1D) are mainly categorized into two types: those that rely on…

The experimental discovery of the fractional Hall conductivity in two-dimensional electron gases revealed new types of quantum particles, called anyons, which are beyond bosons and fermions as they possess fractionalized exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-14 Yan-Cheng Wang , Meng Cheng , William Witczak-Krempa , Zi Yang Meng