A class of P,T-invariant topological phases of interacting electrons

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2004.01.006zbMATH Open1057.81053arXivcond-mat/0307511OpenAlexW2150074608MaRDI QIDQ1826751FDOQ1826751

Zhenghan Wang, Kirill Shtengel, Kevin Walker, C. Nayak, Michael Freedman

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a class of parity- and time-reversal-invariant topological states of matter which can arise in correlated electron systems in 2+1-dimensions. These states are characterized by particle-like excitations exhibiting exotic braiding statistics. $P$ and $T$ invariance are maintained by a `doubling' of the low-energy degrees of freedom which occurs naturally without doubling the underlying microscopic degrees of freedom. The simplest examples have been the subject of considerable interest as proposed mechanisms for high-$T_c$ superconductivity. One is the `doubled' version (i.e. two opposite-chirality copies) of the U(1) chiral spin liquid. The second example corresponds to $Z_2$ gauge theory, which describes a scenario for spin-charge separation. Our main concern, with an eye towards applications to quantum computation, are richer models which support non-Abelian statistics. All of these models, richer or poorer, lie in a tightly-organized discrete family. The physical inference is that a material manifesting the $Z_2$ gauge theory or a doubled chiral spin liquid might be easily altered to one capable of universal quantum computation. These phases of matter have a field-theoretic description in terms of gauge theories which, in their infrared limits, are topological field theories. We motivate these gauge theories using a parton model or slave-fermion construction and show how they can be solved exactly. The structure of the resulting Hilbert spaces can be understood in purely combinatorial terms. The highly-constrained nature of this combinatorial construction, phrased in the language of the topology of curves on surfaces, lays the groundwork for a strategy for constructing microscopic lattice models which give rise to these phases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307511

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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