Optical anyons: Atoms trapped on electromagnetic vortices

E. M. Wright; R. Y. Chiao; J. C. Garrison

doi:10.1016/0960-0779(94)90112-0

Optical anyons: Atoms trapped on electromagnetic vortices

E. M. Wright, R. Y. Chiao, J. C. Garrison

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We study composite particles consisting of an atom trapped on an electromagnetic vortex. The vortex core acts as a guiding center for the atom, so that the atom-vortex composite will be maintained under sufficiently gentle motions of the vortex center. We show that the adiabatic exchange of two identical atom-vortex composites generates a nontrivial geometric phase factor, and conclude that these quasiparticles should obey fractional statistics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1797-1803
Number of pages	7
Journal	Chaos, solitons and fractals
Volume	4
Issue number	8-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-0779(94)90112-0
State	Published - 1994

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