Majorana Fermions and representations of the braid group

DOI10.1142/9789813278677_0003MaRDI QIDQ5195017zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Kauffman

Publication date 17 September 2019

Published in Topology and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04650

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupbraidsextraspecial 2-groupfermionKitaev chainknotslinksMajorana fermionMajorana stringquantum computingquantum processYang-Baxter equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Baxter equations (16T25) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Quantum computation (81P68) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: In this paper we study unitary braid group representations associated with Majorana Fermions. Majorana Fermions are represented by Majorana operators, elements of a Clifford algebra. The paper recalls and proves a general result about braid group representations associated with Clifford algebras, and compares this result with the Ivanov braiding associated with Majorana operators. The paper generalizes observations of Kauffman and Lomonaco and of Mo-Lin Ge to show that certain strings of Majorana operators give rise to extraspecial 2-groups and to braiding representations of the Ivanov type.

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