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arxiv: 0711.0014 · v1 · submitted 2007-11-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech · cond-mat.str-el· quant-ph

Quantum loop models and the non-abelian toric code

classification ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-elquant-ph
keywords loopnon-abeliancodelatticemodelsquantumtopologicaltoric
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I define quantum loop models whose degrees of freedom are Ising spins on the square lattice as in the toric code, but where the excitations should have non-abelian statistics. The inner product is topological, allowing a direct implementation of the anyonic fusion matrix on the lattice. It also makes deconfined anyons possible for a variety of values of the weight per loop $d$ in the ground state. For d=\sqrt{2}, a gapped non-abelian topological phase can occur with only four-spin interactions.

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