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Chern-Simons quantum mechanics and fractional angular momentum in atom system

The model of a planar atom which possesses a non-vanishing electric dipole moment interacting with magnetic fields in a specific setting is studied. Energy spectra of this model and its reduced model, which is the limit of cooling down the atom to the negligible kinetic energy, are solved exactly. We show that %similar with the Chern-Simons quantum mechanics, energy spectra of the reduced model can not be obtained directly from the full ones by taking the same limit. In order to match them, we must regularize energy spectra of the full model when the limit of the negligible kinetic energy is taken. It is one of the characteristics of the Chern-Simons quantum mechanics. Besides it, the canonical angular momentum of the reduced model will take fractional values although the full model can only take integers. It means that it is possible to realize the Chern-Simons quantum mechanics and fractional angular momentum simultaneously by this model.