Topological degeneracy of non-abelian states for dummies

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2006.08.001zbMath1359.82004arXivcond-mat/0607743WikidataQ57973984 ScholiaQ57973984MaRDI QIDQ885249

Yong Baek Kim, Chetan Nayak, Kirill Shtengel, Sumanta Tewari, Masaki Oshikawa

Publication date: 8 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607743

zbMATH Keywords

spin structure; fractional quantum Hall effect; index theorem; topological order; topological degeneracy; non-Abelian statistics; \(p+ \mathrm ip\) superconductor; majorana fermion; pfaffian states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82D55: Statistical mechanics of superconductors

81V70: Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect

82B10: Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

53C27: Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry

57R15: Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.)

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