Rigorous calculations of non-abelian statistics in the Kitaev honeycomb model

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/045007zbMATH Open1448.81489arXiv1103.3061OpenAlexW3102762614MaRDI QIDQ5137641FDOQ5137641

Authors: Ahmet Tuna Bolukbasi, Jiří Vala 

Publication date: 2 December 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a rigorous and highly accurate technique for calculation of the Berry phase in systems with a quadratic Hamiltonian within the context of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model. The method is based on the recently found solution of the model which uses the Jordan-Wigner-type fermionization in an exact effective spin-hardcore boson representation. We specifically simulate the braiding of two non-Abelian vortices (anyons) in a four vortex system characterized by a two-fold degenerate ground state. The result of the braiding is the non-Abelian Berry matrix which is in excellent agreement with the predictions of the effective field theory. The most precise results of our simulation are characterized by an error on the order of $10^{-5}$ or lower. We observe exponential decay of the error with the distance between vortices, studied in the range from one to nine plaquettes. We also study its correlation with the involved energy gaps and provide preliminary analysis of the relevant adiabaticity conditions. The work allows to investigate the Berry phase in other lattice models including the Yao-Kivelson model and particularly the square-octagon model. It also opens the possibility of studying the Berry phase under non-adiabatic and other effects which may constitute important sources of errors in topological quantum computation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3061

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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Cited In (4)

• Honeycomb lattice Kitaev model with Wen-Toric-code interactions, and anyon excitations
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• On critical properties of the Berry curvature in the Kitaev honeycomb model
• Spectrum of the non-Abelian phase in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model

Uses Software

• Matlab

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