New Kinds of Quantum Statistics

Wilczek, Frank

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Frank Wilczek¹²

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I review the quantum kinematics of identical particles, which suggests new possibilities, beyond bosons and fermions, in 2+1 dimensions; and how simple flux-charge constructions embody the new possibilities, leading to both abelian and nonabelian anyons. I briefly allude to experimental realizations, and also advertise a spinor construction of nonabelian statistics, that has a 3+1 dimensional extension.

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Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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Service de Physique Théorique Orme des Merisiers, CEA - Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Bertrand Duplantier
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Wilczek, F. (2009). New Kinds of Quantum Statistics. In: Duplantier, B., Raimond, JM., Rivasseau, V. (eds) The Spin. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 55. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8799-0_2

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