Discovery of Fractionalized Neutral Spin-1/2 Excitation of Topological Order

After the discovery of fraction quantum Hall states in the 1980s,[1] it became more and more clear that Landau symmetry breaking theory does not describe all possible quantum phases of matter. The new quantum phases of matter were called topologically ordered phases[2,3] (for gapped cases) or quantu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124012