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Fractional statistics of anyons in a two-dimensional conductor

April 22nd, 2020

By implementing a collision between the elementary excitations of a two-dimensional conductor, physicists have revealed the fractional statistics of anyons, interpolating between fermionic and bosonic statistics. These results could open the way to topological quantum computing based on the exchange of some varieties of anyons.

This work made the front page of the prestigious world scientific journal Science.

You can read the abstract on the LPENS website : https://www.lpens.ens.psl.eu/fractional-statistics-of-anyons-in-a-two-dimensional-conductor/?lang=en

More information:
H. Bartolomei et al. Fractional statistics in anyon collisions, Science (2020). DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5601

Provided by The Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure

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