From string nets to nonabelions

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0757-9zbMATH Open1196.82072arXivcond-mat/0610583OpenAlexW2128278093MaRDI QIDQ5962379FDOQ5962379

Michael Freedman, C. Nayak, Lukasz Fidkowski, Zhenghan Wang, Kevin Walker

Publication date: 22 September 2010

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss Hilbert spaces spanned by the set of string nets, i.e. trivalent graphs, on a lattice. We suggest some routes by which such a Hilbert space could be the low-energy subspace of a model of quantum spins on a lattice with short-ranged interactions. We then explain conditions which a Hamiltonian acting on this string net Hilbert space must satisfy in order for its ground state and low-lying quasiparticle excitations to be in the DFib topological phase. Using the string net wavefunction, we describe the properties of this phase. Our discussion is informed by mappings of string net wavefunctions to the chromatic polynomial and the Potts model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610583

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99)

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• Interferometry of non-Abelian anyons
• Hamiltonian models for topological phases of matter in three spatial dimensions
• Tutte chromatic identities from the Temperley-Lieb algebra
• Topological order from quantum loops and nets

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