<ul><li>Physicists at Brown University have identified a new class of quasiparticles called fractional excitons in bilayer graphene.</li><li>Fractional excitons exist in a two-dimensional system and possess properties in between fermions and bosons.</li><li>Unlike typical anyons, fractional excitons are neutral particles with distinct quantum characteristics.</li><li>These newly-discovered quasiparticles could have applications in quantum computing and sensing, and may redefine condensed-matter physics.</li></ul>

New class of quasiparticle appears in bilayer graphene

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