Quantum Mechanics of Fractional Spin Particles

Wilczek, Frank

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.957

Quantum Mechanics of Fractional Spin Particles

Frank Wilczek
(
- Santa Barbara, KITP
)

May, 1982

9 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.Lett. 49 (1982) 957-959

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.957

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NSF-ITP-82-56

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Abstract: (APS)

Composites formed from charged particles and vortices in (2+1)-dimensional models, or flux tubes in three-dimensional models, can have any (fractional) angular momentum. The statistics of these objects, like their spin, interpolates continuously between the usual boson and fermion cases. How this works for two-particle quantum mechanics is discussed here.

quantum mechanics
dimension: 3
model: vortex
flux: magnetic
magnetic: flux
charged particle
spin: statistics
statistics: spin
statistics: fractional

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