{"id":227675,"date":"2025-12-23T06:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:26:32","slug":"anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments","title":{"rendered":"Anything-goes \u2018anyons\u2019 may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have anyons in the system, what happens is each anyon may try to move, but it\u2019s frustrated by the presence of other anyons,\u201d Todadri explains. \u201cThis frustration happens even if the anyons are extremely far away from each other. And that\u2019s a purely quantum mechanical effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the team looked for conditions in which anyons might break out of this frustration and move as one macroscopic fluid. Anyons are formed when electrons splinter into fractions of themselves under certain conditions in two-dimensional, single-atom-thin materials, such as MoTe<sub>2<\/sub>. Scientists had previously observed that MoTe<sub>2<\/sub> exhibits the FQAH, in which electrons fractionalize, without the help of an external magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you have anyons in the system, what happens is each anyon may try to move, but it\u2019s frustrated by the presence of other anyons,\u201d Todadri explains. \u201cThis frustration happens even if the anyons are extremely far away from each other. And that\u2019s a purely quantum mechanical effect.\u201d Even so, the team looked for conditions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}