Fermionic topological order on generic triangulations

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-00999-XMaRDI QIDQ2662009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emil Prodan

Publication date 8 April 2021

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09898

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Derived categories, triangulated categories (18G80) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Spectral operators, decomposable operators, well-bounded operators, etc. (47B40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: Consider a finite triangulation of a surface $M$ of genus $g$ and assume that spin-less fermions populate the edges of the triangulation. The quantum dynamics of such particles takes place inside the algebra of canonical anti-commutation relations (CAR). Following Kitaev's work on toric models, we identify a sub-algebra of CAR generated by elements associated to the triangles and vertices of the triangulation. We show that any Hamiltonian drawn from this sub-algebra displays topological spectral degeneracy. More precisely, if $mathcalP$ is any of its spectral projections, the Booleanization of the fundmental group $p{i}_1(M)$ can be embedded inside the group of invertible elements of the corner algebra $mathcalP,mCAR,mathcalP$. As a consequence, $mathcalP$ decomposes in $4^g$ lower projections. Furthermore, a projective representation of $mathbb{Z}_2^{4g}$ is also explicitly constructed inside this corner algebra. Key to all these is a presentation of CAR as a crossed product with the Boolean group $(2^X,Delta)$, where $X$ is the set of fermion sites and $Delta$ is the symmetric difference.

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