Ground-state degeneracy for Abelian anyons in the presence of gapped boundaries
Abstract
Gapped phases with long-range entanglement may admit gapped boundaries. If the boundary is gapped, the ground-state degeneracy is well defined and can be computed using methods of topological quantum field theory. We derive a general formula for the ground-state degeneracy for Abelian fractional quantum Hall phases, including the cases when connected components of the boundary are subdivided into an arbitrary number of segments, with a different boundary condition on each segment, and in the presence of an arbitrary number of boundary domain walls.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- March 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1306.4254
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvB..89l5307K
- Keywords:
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- 71.10.Pm;
- 03.65.Vf;
- 03.70.+k;
- 73.43.-f;
- Fermions in reduced dimensions;
- Phases: geometric;
- dynamic or topological;
- Theory of quantized fields;
- Quantum Hall effects;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- 6 pages