Topological degeneracy of non-abelian states for dummies

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.08.001zbMATH Open1359.82004arXivcond-mat/0607743OpenAlexW3104889785WikidataQ57973984 ScholiaQ57973984MaRDI QIDQ885249FDOQ885249

Authors: Masaki Oshikawa, Yong Baek Kim, Kirill Shtengel, C. Nayak, Sumanta Tewari 

Publication date: 8 June 2007

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

Abstract: We present a physical construction of degenerate groundstates of the Moore-Read Pfaffian states, which exhibits non-Abelian statistics, on general Riemann surface with genus g. The construction is given by a generalization of the recent argument [M.O. and T. Senthil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 060601 (2006)] which relates fraction- alization and topological order. The nontrivial groundstate degeneracy obtained by Read and Green [Phys. Rev. B 61, 10267 (2000)] based on differential geometry is reproduced exactly. Some restrictions on the statistics, due to the fractional charge of the quasiparticle are also discussed. Furthermore, the groundstate degeneracy of the p+ip superconductor in two dimensions, which is closely related to the Pfaffian states, is discussed with a similar construction.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

index theoremspin structuretopological orderfractional quantum Hall effecttopological degeneracynon-Abelian statistics\(p+ \mathrm ip\) superconductormajorana fermionpfaffian states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

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