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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 77, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.033104
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We propose a two-dimensional time-reversal invariant system of essentially noninteracting electrons on a square lattice that exhibits configurations with fractional charges +/- e/2. These are vortexlike topological defects in the dimerization order parameter describing spatial modulation in the electron hopping amplitudes. Charge fractionalization is established by a simple counting argument, analytical calculation within the effective low-energy theory, and by an exact numerical diagonalization of the lattice Hamiltonian. We comment on the exchange statistics of fractional charges and possible realizations of the system.
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