The combination of cold atomic and solid state systems allows a wide array of observables to be brought to bear on detecting bulk abelian and nonabelian anyonic phases, collective properties of nonabelian quasi- particles, and nonabelian statistics of individual anyons. Here the intrinsic complementarity of condensed-matter and atomic realizations is especially important; intellectual cross-fertilization between condensed-matter and atomic approaches significantly enriches the toolbox of detection schemes.  Detection techniques we are pursuing include:

• Bulk incompressibility and magnetic structure of FQH and QSL bulk phases

• Spectroscopic detection of anyons

• Thermodynamic and dynamic signatures of topological degeneracy 

• Transport probes

• Interferometry, braiding, and anyon statistics