nLab anyons in the quantum Hall effect -- references

Anyons in the quantum Hall liquids

References on anyon-excitations (satisfying braid group statistics) in the quantum Hall effect (for more on the application to topological quantum computation see the references there):

The prediction of abelian anyon-excitations in the quantum Hall effect (i.e. satisfying braid group statistics in 1-dimensional linear representations of the braid group):

• B. I. Halperin, Statistics of Quasiparticles and the Hierarchy of Fractional Quantized Hall States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1583 (1984) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1583)

  Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 2390 (1984) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.2390.4)

• Daniel Arovas, J. R. Schrieffer, Frank Wilczek, Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 722 (1984) $[$doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.722$]$

The original discussion of non-abelian anyon-excitations in the quantum Hall effect (i.e. satisfying braid group statistics in higher dimensional linear representations of the braid group, related to modular tensor categories):

• Gregory Moore, Nicholas Read, Nonabelions in the fractional quantum Hall effect, Nucl. Phys. 360B(1991)362 (pdf, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(91)90407-O)

Review:

• Ady Stern, Anyons and the quantum Hall effect – A pedagogical review, Annals of Physics Volume 323, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 204-249 (doi:10.1016/j.aop.2007.10.008, arXiv:0711.4697)