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We review some unusual facts about the theory of non-relativistic anyons in 2+1 dimensions, and use it as a laboratory to explore how interesting features of nonrelativistic field theory correspond to those of many-body quantum mechanics. In particular, we offer an explanation of how Jackiw-Pi vortices arise as the classical limit of certain many-body states in the quantum mechanical theory. Along the way, we make various interesting observations about universal features of the spectrum of anyons subject to different amounts of tuning.
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Turner, C. The quantum origins of non-topological vortices. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 189 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2020)189
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