Braiding flux-tubes in topological quantum and classical lattice models from class-D

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2020.168089MaRDI QIDQ1987495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yifei Liu, Yingkai Liu, Emil Prodan

Publication date 15 April 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02457

zbMATH Keywords

topological braidingtopological meta-materialtopological super-conductor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We use magnetic flux-tubes to stabilize zero-energy modes in a lattice realization of a 2-dimensional superconductor from class D of classification table of topological condensed matter systems. The zero modes are exchanged by slowly displacing the flux-tubes and an application of the adiabatic theorem demonstrates the geometric nature of the resulting unitary time-evolution operators. Furthermore, an explicit numerical evaluation reveals that the evolutions are in fact topological, hence supplying a representation of the braid group, which turns out to be non-abelian. This physical representation is further formalized using single-strand planar diagrams. Lastly, we discuss how these predictions can be implemented with and observed in classical meta-materials and how the standard Majorana representation of the braid group can be generated by measuring derived physical observables.

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