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We explore the decoherence of the gapless/critical boundary of a topological order, through interactions with the bulk reservoir of "ancilla anyons." We take the critical boundary of the $2d$ toric code as an example. The intrinsic nonlocal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-12 Nayan Myerson-Jain , Taylor L. Hughes , Cenke Xu

We consider quantum phase transitions out of topological Mott insulators in which the ground state of the fractionalized excitations (fermionic spinons) is topologically non-trivial. The spinons in topological Mott insulators are coupled to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Gil Young Cho , Cenke Xu , Joel E. Moore , Yong Baek Kim

Bose condensation is central to our understanding of quantum phases of matter. Here we review Bose condensation in topologically ordered phases (also called topological symmetry breaking), where the condensing bosons have non-trivial mutual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 F. J. Burnell

To the working physicist, anyon theory is meant to describe certain quasi-particle excitations occurring in two dimensional topologically ordered systems. A typical calculation using this theory will involve operations such as $\otimes$ to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Simon Burton

We give a construction and algorithmic description of the fusion ring of permutation extensions of an arbitrary modular tensor category using a combinatorial approach inspired by the physics of anyons and symmetry defects in bosonic…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Colleen Delaney

Topological phase transitions beyond anyon condensation remain poorly understood. A notable example is the transition between the toric code (TC) and double semion (DS) phases, which has two distinct $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological orders in (2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Qi Zhang , Wen-Tao Xu

In this paper we outline the application of decomposition to condensation defects and their fusion rules. Briefly, a condensation defect is obtained by gauging a higher-form symmetry along a submanifold, and so there is a natural interplay…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Ling Lin , Daniel G. Robbins , Eric Sharpe

A great part of the mathematical foundations of topological quantum computation is given by the theory of modular categories which provides a description of the topological phases of matter such as anyon systems. In the near future the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Juan Ospina

The classification and characterization of topological phases of matter is well understood for ground states of gapped Hamiltonians that are well isolated from the environment. However, decoherence due to interactions with the environment…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-23 Tyler Ellison , Meng Cheng

We use the computer algebra system GAP to classify modular data up to rank 12. This extends the previously obtained classification of modular data up to rank 6. Our classification includes all the modular data from modular tensor categories…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Siu-Hung Ng , Eric C. Rowell , Xiao-Gang Wen

We study properties of the category of modules of an algebra object A in a tensor category C. We show that the module category inherits various structures from C, provided that A is a Frobenius algebra with certain additional properties. As…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

The theory of anyon systems, as modular functors topologically and unitary modular tensor categories algebraically, is mature. To go beyond anyons, our first step is the interplay of anyons with conventional group symmetry due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Zhenghan Wang

In generalized complex geometry, D-branes can be seen as maximally isotropic spaces and are thus in one-to-one correspondence with pure spinors. When considered on the sum of the tangent and cotangent bundles to the ambient space, all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pascal Grange , Ruben Minasian

Anyon condensation in wormhole geometries is investigated in the Virasoro TQFT (VTQFT) formulation, a proposed reformulation of 3d AdS quantum gravity. We first review some elementary techniques of VTQFT and summarize a gauging scheme for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Shunta Takahashi

There is a difficulty in defining the positions of the D-branes when the scalar fields on them are non-abelian. We show that we can use tachyon condensation to determine the position or the shape of D0-branes uniquely as a commutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Tsuguhiko Asakawa , Goro Ishiki , Takaki Matsumoto , So Matsuura , Hisayoshi Muraki

The macroscopic theory of anyon condensation, rooted in the categorical structure of topological excitations, provides a complete classification of gapped boundaries in topologically ordered systems, where distinct boundaries correspond to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Mu Li , Xiao-Han Yang , Xiao-Yu Dong

We propose a family of order parameters to detect the symmetry fractionalization class of anyons in 2D topological phases. This fractionalization class accounts for the projective, as opposed to linear, representations of the symmetry group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 José Garre-Rubio , Sofyan Iblisdir

Unitary Modular Tensor Categories(UMTC) have a one-to-one correspondence with Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFT). Different identifications have been made so far associating different physical particle types (anyons) to different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Tushar Pandey

We propose a correspondence between topological order in 2+1d and Seifert three-manifolds together with a choice of ADE gauge group $G$. Topological order in 2+1d is known to be characterized in terms of modular tensor categories (MTCs),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-08 Federico Bonetti , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Jingxiang Wu

We study D-brane moduli spaces and tachyon condensation in B-type topological minimal models and their massive deformations. We show that any B-type brane is isomorphic with a direct sum of `minimal' branes, and that its moduli space is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Manfred Herbst , Calin-Iuliu Lazaroiu , Wolfgang Lerche