On the degeneracy of SU(3)_k topological phases

DOI10.1134/S1061920812010037MaRDI QIDQ455604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Toufik Mansour, Stephen P. Jordan, Simone Severini

Publication date 22 October 2012

Published in Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0114

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

Abstract: The ground state degeneracy of an $SU(N{)}_k$ topological phase with $n$ quasiparticle excitations is relevant quantity for quantum computation, condensed matter physics, and knot theory. It is an open question to find a closed formula for this degeneracy for any $N>2$. Here we present the problem in an explicit combinatorial way and analyze the case N=3. While not finding a complete closed-form solution, we obtain generating functions and solve some special cases.

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