🔄From the archive: This year, physicists gave us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in two dimensions.
This article appeared inannual state of science issue as “Anyons Join the Particle Party.” Support our science journalism by becoming aAfter decades of exploration in nature’s smallest domains, physicists have finally found evidence that anyons exist.
MIT physicist Frank Wilczek, who predicted and named anyons in the early 1980s, credits the first paper as the discovery but says the second lets the quasiparticles shine. “It’s gorgeous work that makes the field blossom,” he says. Anyons aren’t like ordinary elementary particles; scientists will never be able to isolate one from the system where it forms.
They tend to clump together. It’s because of this clumping that we have lasers, which are streams of photons all occupying the same quantum state.
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