At www.physorg.com/print200828132.html there is a report on a paper in Physical Review Letters 105, 057201 (2010) concerning the puzzle of electrons as they fractionalise into two separate quasi-particles, spinons and chargons, which carry spin, and charge, respectively, This is known as spin-charge separation and this paper is basically a new theory to explain what happens.
electron fractionalisation
14 August 2010Physics