Exotic non-Abelian anyons from conventional fractional quantum Hall states

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Clarke, David J ^a,b   Alicea, Jason ^a,b   Shtengel, Kirill ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NANOPARTICLE; NON ABELIAN ANYON PARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTIONATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; S-WAVE; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON; FERMION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

ABELIA; MAJORANA;

EID: 84874544630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2340     Document Type: Article

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