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Pseudo-Hermitian Levin-Wen models from non-semisimple TQFTs

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-06-07 v1 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra Quantum Physics

Abstract

We construct large classes of exactly solvable pseudo-Hermitian 2D spin Hamiltonians. The ground states of these systems depend only on the spatial topology of the system. We identify the ground state system on a surface with the value assigned to the surface by a non-semisimple TQFT generalizing the Turaev-Viro model. A non-trivial example arises from a non-semisimple subcategory of representations of quantum sl(2) where the quantum parameter is specialized to a root of unity.

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@article{arxiv.2108.10798,
  title  = {Pseudo-Hermitian Levin-Wen models from non-semisimple TQFTs},
  author = {Nathan Geer and Aaron D. Lauda and Bertrand Patureau-Mirand and Joshua Sussan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10798},
  year   = {2022}
}

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21 pages, tikz diagrams, 2 figures