A defect-based topological field theory construction yields local gapped lattice Hamiltonians whose ground states reproduce Chern-Simons, toric code, and Levin-Wen models.
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Discrete quantum systems from topological field theory
A defect-based topological field theory construction yields local gapped lattice Hamiltonians whose ground states reproduce Chern-Simons, toric code, and Levin-Wen models.