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Anyons are exotic low-dimensional quasiparticles whose unconventional quantum statistics extends the binary particle division into fermions and bosons. The fractional quantum Hall regime provides a natural host, with first convincing anyon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. Glidic , I. Petkovic , C. Piquard , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin , U. Gennser , C. Mora , D. Kovrizhin , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

Anyonic interferometry is a direct probe of fractional statistics. We propose an interferometry geometry that parallels an optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer and offers several advantages over existing interferometry schemes. In contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Navketan Batra , Zezhu Wei , Smitha Vishveshwara , D. E. Feldman

We develop the general quantum measurement theory of non-Abelian anyons through interference experiments. The paper starts with a terse introduction to the theory of anyon models, focusing on the basic formalism necessary to apply standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Parsa Bonderson , Kirill Shtengel , J. K. Slingerland

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures how a single electron with definite energy propagates between a sample surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. In the simplest description, the differential conductance measured is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Mikko M. Ervasti , Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Harju

Anyons - particles carrying fractional statistics that interpolate between bosons and fermions - have been conjectured to exist in low dimensional systems. In the context of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), quasi-particles made of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-29 Tassilo Keilmann , Simon Lanzmich , Ian McCulloch , Marco Roncaglia

We show that a non-interacting gas of charge-$e/3$ anyons with exchange statistics $\theta=-\pi/3$ can superconduct through a hidden weak-pairing mechanism. Such an anyon gas arises naturally in doped fractional Chern insulators at filling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Zheng-Duo Fan , Ashvin Vishwanath , Zijian Wang

Anyons in a topologically ordered phase can carry fractional quantum numbers with respect to the symmetry group of the considered system, one example being the fractional charge of the quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-18 Michael Schuler , Louis-Paul Henry , Yuan-Ming Lu , Andreas M. Läuchli

Anyonic interferometry probes the braiding phases of excitations in topologically ordered matter. This technique is well established for charged quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect. We propose to extend it to neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Zezhu Wei , Navketan Batra , V. F. Mitrović , D. E. Feldman

The low-energy dynamics of two-dimensional topological matter hinges on its one-dimensional edge modes. Tunneling between fractional quantum Hall edge modes facilitates the study of anyonic statistics: it induces time-domain braiding that…

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

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) with crystalline symmetry possess topological invariants that fundamentally have no analog in continuum fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. Here we demonstrate through numerical calculations on model wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

Unlike bosons and fermions, quasi-particles in two-dimensional quantum systems, known as anyons, exhibit statistical exchange phases that range between $0$ and $\pi$. In fractional quantum Hall states, these anyons, possessing a fraction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Matthias Thamm , Bernd Rosenow

We propose a setup to directly measure the anyonic statistical angle on a single edge of a fractional quantum Hall system, without requiring independent knowledge of non-universal parameters. We consider a Laughlin edge state bent into a…

The realization of interacting topological states of matter such as fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in cold atom systems has recently come within experimental reach due to the engineering of optical lattices with synthetic gauge fields…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-03 Johannes Motruk , Ilyoun Na

A number of tools have been developed to detect topological phase transitions in strongly correlated quantum systems. They apply under different conditions, but do not cover the full range of many-body models. It is hence desirable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-05 Sourav Manna , N. S. Srivatsa , Julia Wildeboer , Anne E. B. Nielsen

The charged anyons of a fractional quantum Hall fluid are necessarily dispersionless due to the continuous magnetic translation symmetry. Neutral anyons, however, can disperse, resulting in a much richer space of possible ``daughter''…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Zhaoyu Han , Taige Wang , Zhihuan Dong , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath

Quasi-particles are elementary excitations of condensed matter quantum phases. Demonstrating that they keep quantum coherence while propagating is a fundamental issue for their manipulation for quantum information tasks. Here, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 I. Taktak , M. Kapfer , J. Nath , P. Roulleau , M. Acciai , J. Splettstoesser , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , D. C. Glattli

The discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in moir\'e systems has raised the interesting possibility of realizing phases of itenerant anyons. Anyon dispersion is only possible in the absence of continuous magnetic translation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Mina-Lou Schleith , Tomohiro Soejima , Eslam Khalaf

Fractional quantum statistics are the defining characteristic of anyons. Measuring the phase generated by an exchange of anyons is challenging, as standard interferometry setups -- such as the Fabry-P\'erot interferometer -- suffer from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Bikash Ghosh , Maria Labendik , Liliia Musina , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , David F. Mross

In fractional quantum Hall fluids, the quasiparticle excitations are anyons with fractional charges and statistics. Effective interactions among the anyons can be induced by either model or realistic electron-electron (e-e) interactions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Qianhui Xu , Guangyue Ji , Yuzhu Wang , Ha Quang Trung , Bo Yang

One remarkable feature of strongly correlated systems is the phenomenon of fractionalization where quasiparticles carry only a fraction of the charge or spin of the elementary constituents. Such quasiparticles often present anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Tom Morel , June-Young M. Lee , H. -S. Sim , Christophe Mora