Anyons
Anyons are a new, diverse class of emergent particles that can arise in two-dimensional materials. Frank named them and pioneered their theory. Anyons have a kind of primitive memory, which might make them useful for quantum information processing. The circle of ideas around topological history and distributed quantum information that anyons brought into prominence has been enormously influential
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Popular article: Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles. PDF
Pioneering paper: Fractional Charge on Solitons (with J. Goldstone), Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 986 (1981). PDF
Pioneering paper: Magnetic Flux, Angular Momentum, and Statistics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1144(1982). PDF
Pioneering paper: Linking Numbers, Spin, and Statistics of Solitons (with A. Zee), Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 2250 (1983). PDF
Pioneering paper: Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effect (with D. Arovas and J.R. Schrieffer), Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 722 (1984). PDF