Two identical 1D anyons with zero-range interactions: Exchange statistics, scattering theory, and anyon-anyon mapping

TL;DR

This paper develops a scattering framework for 1D anyons with zero-range interactions, illustrating a mapping between bosonic and fermionic anyons, and analyzing their momentum distributions and correlations.

Contribution

It introduces a scattering approach for 1D anyons with zero-range interactions and demonstrates the bosonic-anyon to fermionic-anyon mapping with explicit calculations.

Findings

Distinct momentum distributions for bosonic and fermionic anyons

Confirmation of asymptotic momentum distribution coefficients

Discussion of non-universal contributions at order k^{-4}

Abstract

While elementary particles obey either bosonic or fermionic exchange statistics, generalized exchange statistics that interpolate between bosons and fermions -- applicable to quasi-particles -- constitute an intriguing topic, both from the fundamental and practical points of view. This work develops a scattering framework for two identical 1D bosonic anyons and two identical 1D fermionic anyons with zero-range contact interactions. The two-body system with zero-range interactions, both in free space and under external confinement, is used to illustrate the recently proposed bosonic-anyon -- fermionic-anyon mapping~(R. Hidalgo-Sacoto {\em{et al.}}, arXiv:2505.17669), which connects the eigenstates of bosonic anyons to those of fermionic anyons and vice versa. Performing explicit calculations for two-particle systems, the momentum distributions and the off-diagonal correlations of the single-particle density matrix for bosonic anyons and fermionic anyons are confirmed to be distinct. We also confirm the previously derived asymptotic coefficients of the momentum distribution tail at orders $k^{-2}$ and $k^{-3}$ for two harmonically confined anyons. Non-universal contributions at order $k^{-4}$ are discussed.