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Non-Abelian defects that bind Majorana or parafermion zero modes are prominent in several topological quantum computation schemes. Underpinning their established understanding is the quantum Ising spin chain, which can be recast as a…

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The boundary of symmetry-protected topological states (SPTs) can harbor new quantum anomaly phenomena. In this work, we characterize the bosonic anomalies introduced by the 1+1D non-onsite-symmetric gapless edge modes of 2+1D bulk bosonic…

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We study fractional exclusion statistics for quantum systems with SU(2) symmetry (arbitrary spin $S$), by generalizing the thermodynamic equations with squeezed strings proposed by Ha and Haldane. The bare hole distributions as well as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Fukui , N. Kawakami , S. -K. Yang

Topological quantum computation relies on a protected degenerate subspace enabling complicated operations in a noise-resilient way. To this end, hybrid platforms based on non-Abelian quasiparticles such as parafermions hold great promise.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Alessio Calzona , Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli

Non-hermitian quantum systems can exhibit spectral degeneracies known as exceptional points, where two or more eigenvectors coalesce, leading to a non-diagonalizable Jordan block. It is known that symmetries can enhance the abundance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Robin Schäfer , Jan C. Budich , David J. Luitz

The Hofstadter model exemplifies a large class of physical systems characterized by particles hopping on a lattice immersed in a gauge field. Recent advancements on various synthetic platforms have enabled highly-controllable simulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Yi Yang , Hoi Chun Po , Vincent Liu , John D. Joannopoulos , Liang Fu , Marin Soljačić

The exotic physics emerging in non-Hermitian systems with balanced distributions of gain and loss has drawn a great deal of attention in recent years. These systems exhibit phase transitions and exceptional point singularities in their…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-17 Arik Bergman , Robert Duggan , Kavita Sharma , Moshe Tur , Avi Zadok , Andrea Alu

Fractional statistics is one of the most intriguing features of topological phases in 2D. In particular, the so-called non-Abelian statistics plays a crucial role towards realizing universal topological quantum computation. Recently, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-29 Jing-Ren Zhou , Qing-Rui Wang , Chenjie Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Using a parent Hermitian tight-binding model on a bipartite lattice with chiral symmetry, we theoretically generate non-Hermitian models for free fermions with $p$ orbitals per unit cell satisfying a complex generalization of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Edward McCann

Multifold fermions, quasiparticles with multiple degeneracy protected by crystalline symmetries, exhibit a variety of intriguing phenomena stemming from their large topological charges and unique band structures. A comprehensive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Koki Satow , Ai Yamakage

Non-Abelian physics, originating from noncommutative sequences of operations, unveils novel topological degrees of freedom for advancing band theory and quantum computation. In photonics, significant efforts have been devoted to developing…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-02 Gyunghun Kim , Jensen Li , Xianji Piao , Namkyoo Park , Sunkyu Yu

It is known that integrable models associated to rational $R$ matrices give rise to certain non-abelian symmetries known as Yangians. Analogously `boundary' symmetries arise when general but still integrable boundary conditions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-24 Anastasia Doikou

Through the study of the Rep($D_8$) non-invertible symmetry, we show how non-invertible symmetries manifest in dynamics. By considering the effect of symmetry preserving disorder, the non-invertible symmetry is shown to give rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Yabo Li , Aditi Mitra

A fundamental pillar of quantum mechanics concerns indistinguishable quantum particles. In three dimensions they may be classified into fermions or bosons, having, respectively, antisymmetric or symmetric wave functions under particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 Simone Barbarino , Rosario Fazio , Vlatko Vedral , Yuval Gefen

Non-Hermitian matrices are ubiquitous in the description of nature ranging from classical dissipative systems, including optical, electrical, and mechanical metamaterials, to scattering of waves and open quantum many-body systems. Seminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , J. Lukas K. König , Lukas Rødland , Marcus Stålhammar , Emil J. Bergholtz

The study of non-Abelian Majorana zero modes advances our understanding of the fundamental physics in quantum matter, and pushes the potential applications of such exotic states to topological quantum computation. It has been shown that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Xiong-Jun Liu , Chris L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

Anyons are exotic low-dimensional quasiparticles whose unconventional quantum statistics extends the binary particle division into fermions and bosons. The fractional quantum Hall regime provides a natural host, with first convincing anyon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. Glidic , I. Petkovic , C. Piquard , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin , U. Gennser , C. Mora , D. Kovrizhin , A. Anthore , F. Pierre

Qubits are neither fermions nor bosons. A Fock space description of qubits leads to a mapping from qubits to parafermions: particles with a hybrid boson-fermion quantum statistics. We study this mapping in detail, and use it to provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. -A. Wu , D. A. Lidar

Semiconductor-s-type superconductor nanowires host spinful fermions and cannot be reduced to a single spinless Kitaev chain hosting single Majorana zero mode. Instead, such systems can be converted into two coupled p-wave Kitaev-like chains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mijanur Islam , Mahan Mohseni , Ibsal Assi , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

The pseudomode framework provides an exact description of the dynamics of an open quantum system coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Using this framework, the influence of the environment on the system is studied in an equivalent model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Paul Menczel , Ken Funo , Mauro Cirio , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori