Braiding statistics and classification of two-dimensional charge-$2m$ superconductors
Abstract
We study braiding statistics between quasiparticles and vortices in two-dimensional charge- (in units of ) superconductors that are coupled to a dynamical gauge field, where is any positive integer. We show that there exist types of braiding statistics when is odd, but only types when is even. Based on the braiding statistics, we obtain a classification of topological phases of charge- superconductors---or formally speaking, a classification of symmetry-protected topological phases, as well as invertible topological phases, of two-dimensional gapped fermions with symmetry. Interestingly, we find that there is no nontrivial fermionic symmetry-protected topological phase with symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1601.02028,
title = {Braiding statistics and classification of two-dimensional charge-$2m$ superconductors},
author = {Chenjie Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02028},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. rewritten introduction. published version