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Symmetry-induced anyon "breeding" in fractional quantum Hall states

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-03-31 v2

Abstract

An exotic feature of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the emergence of anyons, which are quasiparticle excitations with fractional statistics. In the presence of a symmetry, such as U(1)U(1) charge conservation, it is well known that anyons can carry fractional symmetry quantum numbers. In this work we reveal a different class of symmetry realizations: i.e. anyons can "breed" in multiples under symmetry operation. We focus on the global Ising (Z2Z_2) symmetry and show examples of these unconventional symmetry realizations in Laughlin-type fractional quantum Hall states. One remarkable consequence of such an Ising symmetry is the emergence of anyons on the Ising symmetry domain walls. We also provide a mathematical framework which generalizes this phenomenon to any Abelian topological orders.

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@article{arxiv.1311.6481,
  title  = {Symmetry-induced anyon "breeding" in fractional quantum Hall states},
  author = {Yuan-Ming Lu and Lukasz Fidkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6481},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

published version, added a section discussing a mathematical framework which generalizes to arbitrary Abelian topological order