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Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2623–2625 (1990)

Stringlike excitations with fractional spin in 3+1 dimensions

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R. Gambini
Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ingenieria-CC30, Montevideo, Uruguay

L. Setaro
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Tristán Narvaja 1674, Montevideo, Uruguay

Received 6 June 1990; published in the issue dated 19 November 1990

It is shown that composites formed from charged one-dimensional objects and vortices in a multiply connected three-dimensional space which is invariant under O(2) rotations can have fractional angular momentum.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.2623
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.2623
PACS:
11.10.Lm, 11.17.+y