Irrational versus rational charge and statistics in two-dimensional quantum systems.
We show that quasiparticle excitations with irrational charge and irrational exchange statistics exist in tight-binding systems described, in the continuum approximation, by the Dirac equation in (2+1)-dimensional space and time. These excitations can be deconfined at zero temperature, but when they are, the charge rerationalizes to the value 1/2 and the exchange statistics to that of "quartons" (half-semions).
Chamon
Claudio
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Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Hou
Chang-Yu
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Jackiw
Roman
R
Mudry
Christopher
C
Pi
So-Young
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Schnyder
Andreas P
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