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Non-Abelian Chern-Simons models with discrete gauge groups on a lattice

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We construct the local Hamiltonian description of the Chern-Simons theory with discrete non-Abelian gauge group on a lattice. We show that the theory is fully determined by the phase factors associated with gauge transformations and classify all possible non-equivalent phase factors. We also construct the gauge invariant electric field operators that move fluxons around and create/anihilate them. We compute the resulting braiding properties of the fluxons. We apply our general results to the simplest class of non-Abelian groups, dihedral groups D_n.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510612,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Chern-Simons models with discrete gauge groups on a lattice},
  author = {B. Doucot and L. B. Ioffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510612},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures