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Topological Orders from Reflection Positive Frustration-free Hamiltonians

Mathematical Physics 2025-12-02 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We establish a framework with reflection positivity as the first principle for establishing the boundary theory of topologically ordered quantum spin systems. For any reflection positive frustration-free Hamiltonian, We proved that the local topological quantum order (LTQO) condition of ground states on a disk holds if and only if the ground state on the sphere is non-degenerate. Furthermore, we show that the Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction produces the boundary local net of operator algebras from the local ground states.

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@article{arxiv.2510.20662,
  title  = {Topological Orders from Reflection Positive Frustration-free Hamiltonians},
  author = {Zhengwei Liu and Zishuo Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20662},
  year   = {2025}
}

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38 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcome

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