So far two mechanisms, time-reversal symmetry and chirality, have been known to ``protect'' conducting edge states in a bulk insulator. Now Michael Levin of University of Maryland reveals ``fractional statistics'' of bulk particle-like excitations as the third (and final) mechanism of edge-state protection in two-dimensional insulators.
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