College Physics ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3): 32-.doi: 10.16854/j.cnki.1000-0712.210410

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Elementary excitations and quasiparticles

GUO Xing-yuan, YANG He-jia, KAI Lai, LIANG Jun-qing   

  1. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130012, China
  • Received:2021-08-27 Revised:2021-10-28 Online:2022-03-30 Published:2022-03-31

Abstract: The concept of quasiparticle or elementary excitations can be used to describe the physical properties of a macroscopic object in a low-excited state. Different physical models correspond to different quasiparticles, and these quasiparticles make the complicated multi-body problem easier to deal with. In three or more than three-dimensional space, according to the spin properties of particles, particles with half-integer and integer spin are consistent with Fermi-Dirac statistics and Bose-Einstein statistics, respectively. In 1977, after studying the topological properties of two-dimensional space by Leinaas and Myrheim, a kind of quasiparticle-anyon with the fractional statistics is proposed. With the development of two-dimensional physical systems, anyon has changed from pure theoretical research to practical research object.

Key words: quasiparticles, elementary excitation, anyon, statistical laws