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J. Photopolym. Sci. Tech.
We show that, in the presence of Coulomb interactions, the charge of a quasiparticle in a fully gapped superconductor is a sharp quantum observable. It follows that the familiar Bogoliubov quasiparticles are neutral, spin-1/2 fermions. Since the current-carrying collective modes are spinless, charge and spin are carried by separate excitations in a superconductor. The quantum numbers of these quasiparticles are identical to those of a spinon in a resonating-valence-bond superconductor. This supports the notion that a RVB superconductor is simply a strong-coupling version of a BCS superconductor. We describe an experiment that would directly verify the separation of charge and spin in a bulk superconductor. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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