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Boundary algebras of the Kitaev Quantum Double model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-09-26 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Operator Algebras Quantum Algebra Quantum Physics

Abstract

The recent article [arXiv:2307.12552] gave local topological order (LTO) axioms for a quantum spin system, showed they held in Kitaev's Toric Code and in Levin-Wen string net models, and gave a bulk boundary correspondence to describe bulk excitations in terms of the boundary net of algebras. In this article, we prove the LTO axioms for Kitaev's Quantum Double model for a finite group GG. We identify the boundary nets of algebras with fusion categorical nets associated to (Hilb(G),C[G])(\mathsf{Hilb}(G),\mathbb{C}[G]) or (Rep(G),CG)(\mathsf{Rep}(G),\mathbb{C}^G) depending on whether the boundary cut is rough or smooth respectively. This allows us to make connections to work of Ogata on the type of the cone von Neumann algebras in the algebraic quantum field theory approach to topological superselection sectors. We show that the boundary algebras can also be calculated from a trivial GG-symmetry protected topological phase (GG-SPT), and that the gauging map preserves the boundary algebras. Finally, we compute the boundary algebras for the (3+1)D Quantum Double model associated to an abelian group.

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@article{arxiv.2309.13440,
  title  = {Boundary algebras of the Kitaev Quantum Double model},
  author = {Mario Tomba and Shuqi Wei and Brett Hungar and Daniel Wallick and Kyle Kawagoe and Chian Yeong Chuah and David Penneys},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13440},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, many tikz figures