Abstract
Attention is drawn to a relation between the recently discovered three-dimensional chiral anomaly and fermion zero modes. Application to planar systems of electrons in an external magnetic field is suggested.
Keywords
PhysicsPlanarCondensed matter physicsElectronZero (linguistics)Magnetic fieldFermionQuantum electrodynamicsAnomaly (physics)Charge (physics)Heavy fermionQuantum mechanicsSuperconductivity
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- 1984
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- article
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2375-2377
- Citations
- 366
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R. Jackiw
(1984).
Fractional charge and zero modes for planar systems in a magnetic field.
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields
, 29
(10)
, 2375-2377.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.29.2375
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- DOI
- 10.1103/physrevd.29.2375