{"id":233965,"date":"2026-03-24T03:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/corralling-interfering-anyons"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:31:43","slug":"corralling-interfering-anyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/corralling-interfering-anyons","title":{"rendered":"Corralling Interfering Anyons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/corralling-interfering-anyons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/Physics.19.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A delicate interference experiment elucidates the collective behavior of quasiparticles that are neither bosons nor fermions, but something in between.<\/p>\n<p>When you live in theory-land, as I do, anyons in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are an emblem of elegance. They address a fundamental question in quantum mechanics\u2014the classification of indistinguishable particles\u2014by breaking the long-rooted dichotomy between fermions and bosons and replacing it with a continuum of possibilities. Their implications are far reaching. Anyons account for the \u201chierarchy\u201d of FQH states and they inspire visions of topologically protected quantum computation [1]. In experiment-land, the most direct manifestation of anyons is the phase that the system\u2019s wave function acquires when two anyons are interchanged or when one winds around another. This phase is at the heart of a new experiment performed by Noah Samuelson and Andrea Young of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their collaborators [2].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/Physics.19. A delicate interference experiment elucidates the collective behavior of quasiparticles that are neither bosons nor fermions, but something in between. When you live in theory-land, as I do, anyons in fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems are an emblem of elegance. They address a fundamental question in quantum mechanics\u2014the classification of indistinguishable particles\u2014by breaking the [\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-233965","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\/233965","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=233965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}