Electron fractionalization for two-dimensional Dirac fermions
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Claudio Chamon,1,2 Chang-Yu Hou,1 Roman Jackiw,2 Christopher Mudry,3 So-Young Pi,1 and Gordon Semenoff4 1Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA 2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1 Received 15 February 2008; published 20 June 2008
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