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A bilayer Double Semion Model with Symmetry-Enriched Topological Order

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-12-06 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We construct a new model of two-dimensional quantum spin systems that combines intrinsic topo- logical orders and a global symmetry called flavour symmetry. It is referred as the bilayer Doubled Semion model (bDS) and is an instance of symmetry-enriched topological order. A honeycomb bi- layer lattice is introduced to combine a Double Semion Topolgical Order with a global spin-flavour symmetry to get the fractionalization of its quasiparticles. The bDS model exhibits non-trival braid- ing self-statistics of excitations and its dual model constitutes a Symmetry-Protected Topological Order with novel edge states. This dual model gives rise to a bilayer Non-Trivial Paramagnet that is invariant under the flavour symmetry and the well-known spin flip symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1604.08656,
  title  = {A bilayer Double Semion Model with Symmetry-Enriched Topological Order},
  author = {L. Ortiz and M. A. Martin-Delgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08656},
  year   = {2016}
}

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