2021 CAP Virtual Congress / Congrès virtuel de l'ACP 2021

Session

S-HERZ Herzberg Memorial Lecture / Conférence commémorative Herzberg

S-HERZ

6 Jun 2021, 18:00

Underline Conference System

Conveners

S-HERZ Herzberg Memorial Lecture / Conférence commémorative Herzberg

• Robert Thompson (University of Calgary)

597. Quanta of the Third Kind: Anyons

Prof. Frank Wilczek (MIT, Shanghai Jiao Tong U, ASU, Stockholm U.)

06/06/2021, 18:00

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

For many years physicists divided the world of quantum particles into two kingdoms – bosons and fermions. Anyons are particles with a sort of memory, that fall outside those kingdoms. In recent decades theorists have produced an enormous literature about the possible occurrence and properties of anyons. It is only in the last few months, however, that clear experimental confirmation has...