Quantum statistics and spacetime topology: quantum surgery formulas
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Publication:2335976
DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2019.06.002zbMATH Open1427.81059arXiv1901.11537OpenAlexW3103977176WikidataQ127495415 ScholiaQ127495415MaRDI QIDQ2335976FDOQ2335976
Authors: Juven Wang, Xiao-Gang Wen, Shing-Tung Yau 
Publication date: 18 November 2019
Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: To formulate the universal constraints of quantum statistics data of generic long-range entangled quantum systems, we introduce the geometric-topology surgery theory on spacetime manifolds where quantum systems reside, cutting and gluing the associated quantum amplitudes, specifically in 2+1 and 3+1 spacetime dimensions. First, we introduce the fusion data for worldline and worldsheet operators capable of creating anyonic excitations of particles and strings, well-defined in gapped states of matter with intrinsic topological orders. Second, we introduce the braiding statistics data of particles and strings, such as the geometric Berry matrices for particle-string Aharonov-Bohm, 3-string, 4-string, or multi-string adiabatic loop braiding process, encoded by submanifold linkings, in the closed spacetime 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds. Third, we derive new `quantum surgery' formulas and constraints, analogous to Verlinde formula associating fusion and braiding statistics data via spacetime surgery, essential for defining the theory of topological orders, 3d and 4d TQFTs and potentially correlated to bootstrap boundary physics such as gapless modes, extended defects, 2d and 3d conformal field theories or quantum anomalies. This article is meant to be an extended and further detailed elaboration of our previous work [arXiv:1602.05951] and Chapter 6 of [arXiv:1602.05569]. Our theory applies to general quantum theories and quantum mechanical systems, also applicable to, but not necessarily requiring the quantum field theory description.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11537
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