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A dynamical Toric Code model with fusion and de-fusion

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Authors: Bruno Nachtergaele, Nicholas E. Sherman

Year

2019

Paper ID

15364

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Preprint

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Abstract

We introduce a two-parameter family of perturbations of Kitaev's Toric Code Model in which the anyonic excitations acquire an interesting dynamics. We study the dynamics of this model in the space of states with electric and magnetic charge both equal to 1 and find that the model exhibits both bound states and scattering states in a suitable region of the parameters. The bound state is a Majorana fermion with a dispersion relation of Dirac cone type. For a certain range of model parameters, we find that these bound states disappear in a continuum of scattering states at a critical value of the total momentum. The scattering states describe separate electric and magnetic anyons, which in this model each have a sin k dispersion relation.

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  • We introduce a two-parameter family of perturbations of Kitaev's Toric Code Model in which the anyonic excitations acquire an interesting dynamics.

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