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The role of anyonic statistics stands as a cornerstone in the landscape of topological quantum techniques. While recent years have brought forth encouraging and persuasive strides in detecting anyons, a significant facet remains unexplored,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Gu Zhang , Pierre Glidic , Frederic Pierre , Igor Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

We show that the presence of anyons in the excitation spectrum of a two-dimensional system can be inferred from nonlinear spectroscopic quantities. In particular, we consider pump-probe spectroscopy, where a sample is irradiated by two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-07 Max McGinley , Michele Fava , S. A. Parameswaran

Anyons have exotic statistical properties, fractional statistics, differing from Bosons and Fermions. They can be created as excitations of some Hamiltonian models. Here we present an experimental demonstration of anyonic fractional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Guanru Feng , Guilu Long , Raymond Laflamme

In two-dimensions, the laws of physics even permit the existence of anyons which exhibit fractional statistics ranging continuously from bosonic to fermionic behaviour. They have been responsible for the fractional quantum Hall effect and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-18 Jiang-Feng Du , Jing Zhu , Ming-Guang Hu , Jing-Ling Chen

The possibility of realizing non-Abelian excitations (non-Abelions) in two-dimensional (2D) Abelian states of matter has generated a lot of interest recently. A well-known example of such non-Abelions are parafermion zeros modes (PFZMs)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-06 Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Abolhassan Vaezi

We consider a thought experiment where two distinct species of 2D particles in a perpendicular magnetic field interact via repulsive potentials. If the magnetic field and the interactions are strong enough, one type of particles forms a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Douglas Lundholm , Nicolas Rougerie

The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking and topology can result in exotic quantum states of matter. A celebrated example is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state, which exhibits an integer quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic…

Understanding the nature of quasihole excitations, i.e., anyons that have fractional charge and statistics, has been a challenging problem in condensed matter physics. Our theoretical approach to this problem has been to consider a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Vadym Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The Josephson effect provides a direct method to probe the strength of the pairing interaction in superconductors. By measuring the phase fluctuating Josephson current between a superconducting tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-25 Mallika T. Randeria , Benjamin E. Feldman , Ilya K. Drozdov , Ali Yazdani

Search for parafermions and Fibonacci anyons, which are excitations obeying non-Abelian statistics, is driven both by the quest for deeper understanding of nature and prospects for universal topological quantum computation. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Liang , G. E. Simion , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

Two-dimensional systems such as quantum spin liquids or fractional quantum Hall systems exhibit anyonic excitations that possess more general statistics than bosons or fermions. This exotic statistics makes it challenging to solve even a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-24 Nico Kirchner , Darragh Millar , Babatunde M. Ayeni , Adam Smith , Joost K. Slingerland , Frank Pollmann

Correlations of partitioned particles carry essential information about their quantumness. Partitioning full beams of charged particles leads to current fluctuations, with their autocorrelation (namely, shot noise) revealing the particle'…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 June-Young M. Lee , Changki Hong , Tomer Alkalay , Noam Schiller , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , Yuval Oreg , H. -S. Sim

We develop a density functional treatment of non-interacting abelian anyons, which is capable, in principle, of dealing with a system of a large number of anyons in an external potential. Comparison with exact results for few particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Yayun Hu , G. Murthy , S. Rao , J. K. Jain

A collider, where particles are injected to a beam splitter from opposite sides, has been used for identifying quantum statistics of identical particles. The collision leads to bunching of the particles for bosons and antibunching for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 June-Young M. Lee , H. -S. Sim

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

Non-Abelian topological order (TO) is a coveted state of matter with remarkable properties, including quasiparticles that can remember the sequence in which they are exchanged. These anyonic excitations are promising building blocks of…

The search for anyons, quasiparticles with fractional charge and exotic exchange statistics, has inspired decades of condensed matter research. Quantum Hall interferometers enable direct observation of the anyon braiding phase via discrete…

An exotic feature of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the emergence of anyons, which are quasiparticle excitations with fractional statistics. In the presence of a symmetry, such as $U(1)$ charge conservation, it is well known that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-31 Yuan-Ming Lu , Lukasz Fidkowski

Composite fermion (CF) is a topological quasiparticle that emerges from a non-perturbative attachment of vortices to electrons in strongly correlated two-dimensional materials. Similar to non-interacting fermions that form Landau levels in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Songyang Pu , Ajit C. Balram , Yuwen Hu , Yen-Chen Tsui , Minhao He , Nicolas Regnault , Michael P. Zaletel , Ali Yazdani , Zlatko Papić

It has been demonstrated numerically, mainly by considering ground state properties, that fractional quantum Hall physics can appear in lattice systems, but it is very difficult to study the anyons directly. Here, I propose to solve this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-29 Anne E. B. Nielsen