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Exchange statistics are a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, dictating the symmetry of identical particle wavefunctions and thereby enabling emergent phenomena of many-body quantum states. The exchange-induced unitary…

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…

In contrast to classical physics, quantum mechanics divides particles into two classes-bosons and fermions-whose exchange statistics dictate the dynamics of systems at a fundamental level. In two dimensions quasi-particles known as 'anyons'…

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

Anyons are quasiparticles with fractional charge and statistics that arise in strongly correlated two-dimensional systems such as the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect and fractional Chern insulators (FCI). Interactions between anyons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

Non-Abelian anyons are exotic quasiparticle excitations hosted by certain topological phases of matter. They break the fermion-boson dichotomy and obey non-Abelian braiding statistics: their interchanges yield unitary operations, rather…

We present an exact scheme of bosonization for anyons (including fermions) in the two-dimensional manifold of the quantum Hall fluid. This gives every fractional quantum Hall phase of the electrons one or more dual bosonic descriptions. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Bo Yang

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…

Anyons, particles displaying a fractional exchange statistics intermediate between bosons and fermions, play a central role in the fractional quantum Hall effect and various spin lattice models, and have been proposed for topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 S. Francesconi , A. Raymond , N. Fabre , A. Lema^itre , M. I. Amanti , P. Milman , F. Baboux , S. Ducci

Topological quantum computation has recently emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of topological states of matter whose quasiparticle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chetan Nayak , Steven H. Simon , Ady Stern , Michael Freedman , Sankar Das Sarma

Anyons are exotic quasiparticles obeying fractional statistics,whose behavior can be emulated in artificially designed spin systems.Here we present an experimental emulation of creating anyonic excitations in a superconducting circuit that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Y. P. Zhong , D. Xu , P. Wang , C. Song , Q. J. Guo , W. X. Liu , K. Xu , B. X. Xia , Chao-Yang Lu , Siyuan Han , Jian-Wei Pan , Haohua Wang

Non-Abelian anyons--particles whose exchange noncommutatively transforms a system's quantum state--are widely sought for the exotic fundamental physics they harbor as well as for quantum computing applications. There now exist numerous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-24 David J. Clarke , Jason Alicea , Kirill Shtengel

Anyons have recently received great attention due to their promising application in topological quantum computation. The best validated system that enjoys the anyonic excitations are the Laughlin states. The quasi-particles in Laughlin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Rui Wang , Wei Chen , Baigeng Wang , D. Y. Xing

The possibility of realizing non-Abelian statistics and utilizing it for topological quantum computation (TQC) has generated widespread interest. However, the non-Abelian statistics that can be realized in most accessible proposals is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-04 Abolhassan Vaezi , Maissam Barkeshli

The goal of creating topologically protected qubits using non-Abelian anyons is currently one of the most exciting areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics. Majorana zero modes (MZM), which are non-Abelian anyons predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , Ali Yazdani

Electrons living in a two-dimensional world under a strong magnetic field - the so-called fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) - often manifest themselves as fractionally charged quasiparticles (anyons). Moreover, being under special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 R. Bhattacharyya , Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

We study the trapping of Abelian anyons (quasiholes and quasiparticles) by a local potential (e.g., induced by an AFM tip) in a microscopic model of fractional quantum Hall liquids with long-range Coulomb interaction and edge confining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zi-Xiang Hu , Xin Wan , Peter Schmitteckert

Anyons occur in two-dimensional electron systems as excitations with fractional charge in the topologically ordered states of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE). Their dynamics are of utmost importance for topological quantum phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 M. Kapfer , P. Roulleau , M. Santin , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , D. C. Glattli

Fractional statistics give rise to quantum behaviors that differ fundamentally from those of bosons and fermions. While two-dimensional anyons play a major role in strongly correlated systems and topological quantum computing, the nature of…

We propose a method to extract the mutual exchange statistics of the anyonic excitations of a general Abelian fractional quantum Hall state, by comparing the tunneling characteristics of a quantum point contact in two different experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Noam Schiller , Yotam Shapira , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg