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 -particles and -strings in the 3-dimensional (spatial dimension) toric code model, which realizes the 3-dimensional topological order. Recent mathematical result, however, shows that there are additional string-like topological defects in the 3-dimensional 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.
Cite
@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