Revealing anyonic statistics with multiphoton entanglement
Witlef Wieczorek, Ch. Schmid, Nikolai Kiesel, Reinhold Pohlner, Jiannis K. Pachos, Harald Weinfurter · International Conference on Quantum Information · 2008
Anyons, manifested as quasiparticles in two-dimensional systems, exhibit fractional statistics that ranges continuously from bosonic to fermionic behavior. Here, we reveal anyonic features in a quantum simulation using multi-partite entangled states of polarized photons.