Fractional Excitations in Non-Euclidean Elastic Plates.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.098001
Abstract: We show that minimal-surface non-Euclidean elastic plates share the same low-energy effective theory as Haldane's dimerized quantum spin chain. As a result, such elastic plates support fractional excitations, which take the form of charge-1/2 solitons… read more here.
Keywords: euclidean elastic; non euclidean; fractional excitations; elastic plates ... See more keywords