The quantum double model with boundary: condensations and symmetries

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DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1294-XzbMATH Open1229.81120arXiv1006.5479OpenAlexW2131970804MaRDI QIDQ717110FDOQ717110


Authors: Salman Beigi, Peter W. Shor, Daniel P. Z. Whalen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 September 2011

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

Abstract: Associated to every finite group, Kitaev has defined the quantum double model for every orientable surface without boundary. In this paper, we define boundaries for this model and characterize condensations; that is, we find all quasi-particle excitations (anyons) which disappear when they move to the boundary. We then consider two phases of the quantum double model corresponding to two groups with a domain wall between them, and study the tunneling of anyons from one phase to the other. Using this framework we discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions when two different groups give the same anyon types. As an application we show that in the quantum double model for S_3 (the permutation group over three letters) there is a chargeon and a fluxion which are not distinguishable. This group is indeed a special case of groups of the form of the semidirect product of the additive and multiplicative groups of a finite field, for all of which we prove a similar symmetry.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5479




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