https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0912.4868/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40546994urn:hackerpapers:mention:0912.4868:40546994Sat, 01 Jun 2024 16:22:28 GMT<p>If you look at the experiments, they don’t mention observing a single entity of fractional charge, it is always in terms of aggregate behavior under EM fields: conductance(1) inferred from shot noise (2), or density (3) (1) https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.4868 (2) https://n.ethz.ch/~marnikm/files/shotNoise.pdf (3) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerhard-Abstreiter/publ... Personally, I find it curious that people talk about detecting single photons, but in these fractional charge experiments, nobody mentions detecting a single quasiparticle. As for the math, nobody says it outright, or even…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0912.4868/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.mes-hall