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arxiv: 1712.03238 · v2 · pith:XLVWHVYNnew · submitted 2017-12-08 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.str-el

Fibonacci Topological Superconductor

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
keywords fibonaccitopologicalmajoranamodelphasetheorycharacterizedfermions
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We introduce a model of interacting Majorana fermions that describes a superconducting phase with a topological order characterized by the Fibonacci topological field theory. Our theory, which is based on a $SO(7)_1/(G_2)_1$ coset factorization, leads to a solvable one dimensional model that is extended to two dimensions using a network construction. In addition to providing a description of the Fibonacci phase without parafermions, our theory predicts a closely related "anti-Fibonacci" phase, whose topological order is characterized by the tricritical Ising model. We show that Majorana fermions can split into a pair of Fibonacci anyons, and propose an interferometer that generalizes the $Z_2$ Majorana interferometer and directly probes the Fibonacci non-Abelian statistics.

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