Electric-magnetic duality in the quantum double models of topological orders with gapped boundaries

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2020)030zbMATH Open1435.81199arXiv1910.13441OpenAlexW3105156733MaRDI QIDQ2188564FDOQ2188564

Yidun Wan, Yuting Hu, Hongyu Wang, Yingcheng Li

Publication date: 11 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize the Electric-magnetic (EM) duality in the quantum double (QD) models to the case of topological orders with gapped boundaries. We also map the QD models with boundaries to the Levin-Wen (LW) models with boundaries. To this end, we Fourier transform and rewrite the extended QD model with a finite gauge group $G$ on a trivalent lattice with a boundary. Gapped boundary conditions of the model before the transformation are known to be characterized by the subgroups $KsubseteqG$. We find that after the transformation, the boundary conditions are then characterized by the Frobenius algebras $A_{G,K}$ in $mathrm{Rep}_G$. An $A_{G,K}$ is the dual space of the quotient of the group algebra of $G$ over that of $K$, and $mathrm{Rep}_G$ is the category of the representations of $G$. The EM duality on the boundary is revealed by mapping the $K$'s to $A_{G,K}$'s. We also show that our transformed extended QD model can be mapped to an extended LW model on the same lattice via enlarging the Hilbert space of the extended LW model. Moreover, our transformed extended QD model elucidates the phenomenon of anyon splitting in anyon condensation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13441

zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theorieslattice quantum field theorytopological field theoriestopological states of matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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• On weak Hopf symmetry and weak Hopf quantum double model
• Extend the Levin-Wen model to two-dimensional topological orders with gapped boundary junctions
• Electric-magnetic duality and \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry enriched abelian lattice gauge theory
• Weak Hopf symmetry and tube algebra of the generalized multifusion string-net model
• Boundary and domain wall theories of 2d generalized quantum double model

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