Vicinal surfaces, fractional statistics, and universality

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作者
Bhattacharjee, SM [1 ]
Mukherji, S
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[1] Inst Phys, Bhubaneswar 751005, Orissa, India
[2] Indian Inst Technol, Dept Phys & Meteorol, Kharagpur 721302, W Bengal, India
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2374
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We propose that the phases of all vicinal surfaces can be characterized by four fixed Lines, in the renormalization group sense, in a three-dimensional space of coupling constants. The observed configurations of several Si surfaces are consistent with this picture. One of these fixed lines also describes one-dimensional quantum particles with fractional exclusion statistics. The featureless steps of a vicinal surface can therefore he thought of as a realization of fractional-statistics particles, possibly with additional short-range interactions.
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