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Adiabatically exchanging anyons gives rise to topologically protected operations on the quantum state of the system, but the desired result is only achieved if the anyons are well separated, which requires a sufficiently large area. Being…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 N. S. Srivatsa , Xikun Li , Anne E. B. Nielsen

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…

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…

We investigate the influence of capacitive coupling on the detection of anyon braiding in a single-edge interferometer realized in the fractional quantum Hall regime. In this setup, a quantum point contact bends a single edge into a loop,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Noé Demazure , Flavio Ronetti , Benoît Grémaud , Laurent Raymond , Masayuki Hashisaka , Takeo Kato , Thierry Martin

Anyons obeying fractional exchange statistics arise naturally in two dimensions: hard-core two-body constraints make the configuration space of particles not simply-connected. The braid group describes how topologically-inequivalent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-27 Sebastian Nagies , Botao Wang , A. C. Knapp , André Eckardt , N. L. Harshman

We comment on the significance of the results in the paper by Nakamura et al (2020). The experimental result measures the phase for a repeated elementary exchange of two identical quasiparticles, and shows that the quasiparticles are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Nicholas Read , Sankar Das Sarma

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

Two-dimensional systems can host exotic particles called anyons whose quantum statistics are neither bosonic nor fermionic. For example, the elementary excitations of the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor $\nu=1/m$ (where m…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 H. Bartolomei , M. Kumar , R. Bisognin , A. Marguerite , J. -M. Berroir , E. Bocquillon , B. Plaçais , A. Cavanna , Q. Dong , U. Gennser , Y. Jin , G. Fève

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

Parity conservation dictates that when fusing pairs of Moore-Read (MR) quasiholes, such that each pair of charge-$e/4$ anyon forms a charge-$e/2$ anyon, the parity of the numbers of $1$-anyon and $\psi$-anyon must be conserved within a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-10 Ha Quang Trung , Qianhui Xu , Bo Yang

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

Studies of free particles in low-dimensional quantum systems such as two-leg ladders provide insight into the influence of statistics on collective behaviour. The behaviours of bosons and fermions are well understood, but two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-20 Robert N. C. Pfeifer

The quantum Hall (QH) effect represents a unique playground where quantum coherence of electrons can be exploited for various applications, from metrology to quantum computation. In the fractional regime it also hosts anyons, emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli , Stefan Heun , Lucia Sorba

Anyons in one spatial dimension can be defined by correctly identifying the configuration space of indistinguishable particles and imposing Robin boundary conditions. This allows an interpolation between the bosonic and fermionic limits. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 H S Mani , Ramadas N , V V Sreedhar

The discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in two-dimensional heterostructures has opened the door to realizing phases of dispersing anyons. Here, we develop an analytically controlled theory of anyon dispersion in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Zihan Yan , Qingchen Li , Tomohiro Soejima , Eslam Khalaf

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

Qubits in topological quantum computation are built from non-Abelian anyons. Adiabatic braiding of anyons is exploited as topologically protected logical gate operations. Thus, the adiabaticity upon which the notion of quantum statistics is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-06 Meng Cheng , Victor Galitski , Sankar Das Sarma

Anyons, unique to two spatial dimensions, underlie extraordinary phenomena such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, but their generalization to higher dimensions has remained elusive. The topology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces constrains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yitao Feng , Hanyu Xue , Yuyang Li , Meng Cheng , Ryohei Kobayashi , Po-Shen Hsin , Yu-An Chen

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

A quantum computer can perform exponentially faster than its classical counterpart. It works on the principle of superposition. But due to the decoherence effect, the superposition of a quantum state gets destroyed by the interaction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Muhammad Ilyas