Rotons in Anyon Superfluids

Abstract

We consider the problem of calculating the excitation spectrum of a gas of nonrelativistic anyons. When the anyons have statistics close to fermionic and the statistical angle has the form $\theta =\pi (1-\frac{1}{k})$ where $k$ is a large integer, the problem can be solved by employing the method of bosonization, which maps the problem to that of an infinite number of bosonic excitations coupled to a $U(1)$ Chern-Simons gauge field. The spectrum consists of a Goldstone boson branch and a large number of massive branches, each having roton minima and maxima. The dispersion curves asymptote to the Landau levels at large momentum.

19 pages, 2 figures; clarifications added, typos fixed

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