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Defects in the 3-dimensional toric code model form a braided fusion 2-category

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-12-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

It was well known that there are ee-particles and mm-strings in the 3-dimensional (spatial dimension) toric code model, which realizes the 3-dimensional Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 topological order. Recent mathematical result, however, shows that there are additional string-like topological defects in the 3-dimensional Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 topological order. In this work, we construct all topological defects of codimension 2 and higher, and show that they form a braided fusion 2-category satisfying a braiding non-degeneracy condition.

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@article{arxiv.2009.06564,
  title  = {Defects in the 3-dimensional toric code model form a braided fusion 2-category},
  author = {Liang Kong and Yin Tian and Zhi-Hao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06564},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

30 pages, 29 figures. Comments are welcome

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