‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles

[erek]

Wow! This is something else!

"“Everything fits with the theory so uniquely, there are no questions,” said Dmitri Feldman, a physicist at Brown University who was not involved in the recent work. “That’s very unusual for this field, in my experience.”

“There’s been a lot of evidence for a long time,” Wilczek said. “But if you ask: Is there a specific phenomenon you can point to and say the anyons are responsible for that phenomenon and you can’t explain it in any other way? I think this is pretty clearly at a different level.”"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/milestone-evidence-for-anyons-a-third-kingdom-of-particles-20200512/

 

[blackacidevil]

Anyons will be especially useful in eliminating chroniton fields.

 

[erek]

Anyons will be especially useful in eliminating chroniton fields.

Hmm

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Great discovery. Silly name.

Too close to Anions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion#Anions_and_cations

 

[KD5ZXG]

https://www.theonion.com/fermilab-receives-generous-anonymous-particle-donation-1819580088

Wait... Onion or Anyon? I get so confused...

 

[1337Goat]

Can anyon explain this better?

 

[Marees]

Can anyon explain this better?

It seems to be something like phonons/lasers/superconductivity etc, where you get an organised behaviour at a higher level, it feels as if the entire organized structure is behaving as a single particle, I think.

That is what I understood

 

[KD5ZXG]

Cook an anyon long enough, it caramelizes and turns sweet. No explaining it really...