Tuesday, October 23, 2012

1210.5527 (Paul Fendley et al.)

Fibonacci topological order from quantum nets    [PDF]

Paul Fendley, Sergei V. Isakov, Matthias Troyer
We analyze a model of quantum nets and show it has non-abelian topological order of doubled Fibonacci type. The ground state has the same topological behavior as that of the corresponding string-net model, but our Hamiltonian has less complicated interactions, and the excitations are dynamical, not fixed. This Hamiltonian includes terms acting on the spins around a face, around a vertex, and special "Jones-Wenzl" terms that serve to couple long loops together. We provide strong evidence for a gap by exact diagonalization, completing the list of ingredients necessary for topological order.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5527

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