What is an Anyon particle?
What is an Anyon particle? In physics, an anyon is a type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than the two kinds of standard elementary particles, fermions and bosons. What are anyons? Anyons are the latest addition to a growing family of phenomena called quasiparticles, which are not elementary particles, but are instead collective excitations of many electrons in solid devices. Where do anyons exist? Anyons fall somewhere in between bosons and fermions, not entirely avoiding one another or clumping up. Since we don't live in two dimensions, Fève and colleagues searched for...