The project's aims are to study and identify the properties of exotic states in the quantum hall effect regime. These states generally support fractional charges with different quantum statistics than electrons and photons, called anyonic statistics. Simple conductance measurements fail to reveal this elusive statistics. Our work is based on measuring current fluctuations and heat transport in addition to the conductance measurements. We already verify the anyonic statistics of the most studied quantum state; however, in contradiction to the theoretical expectations. These properties were verified by two experimental methods.
Our plan is to continue and identify other anyonic states by employing novel technique.
Future quantum computations depends on the identification of these states and understanding their properties. Hence, this basic physics work is of extreme importance.