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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages 133-138Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2006-10092-x
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We address the question whether features known from quantum chromodynamics (QCD) can possibly also show up in solid-state physics. It is shown that spinless fermions of charge e on a checkerboard lattice with nearest-neighbor repulsion provide for a simple model of confined fractional charges. After defining a proper vacuum the system supports excitations with charges +/-e/2 attached to the ends of strings. There is a constant confining force acting between the fractional charges. It results from a reduction of vacuum fluctuations and a polarization of the vacuum in the vicinity of the connecting strings.
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