Fractional charge excitations in fermionic ladders
B. N. Narozhny, Sam T. Carr, A. A. Nersesyan
The system of interacting spinless fermions hopping on a two-leg ladder in the presence of an external magnetic field is shown to possess a long-range order: the bond density wave or the staggered flux phase. In both cases the elementary excitations are ${Z}_{2}$ kinks and carry one half the charge of an electron.
arXiv:cond-mat/0407593•Physical Review B•Apr 13, 2005•35 citations