Stability of the superselection sectors of Kitaev's abelian quantum double models
Date
Thursday, May 24, 2018 15:00 - 16:15
Speaker
Bruno Nachtergaele (US Davis)
Location
Big Seminar room Ground floor / Office Bldg West (I21.EG.101)
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar, mathematical_seminar_ics
Host
Robert Seiringer
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Kitaev's quantum double models provide a rich class of examples of two-dimensional lattice systems with topological order in the ground states and a spectrum described by anyonic elementary excitations. The infinite volume ground states of the abelian quantum double models come in a number of equivalence classes called superselection sectors. We prove that the superselection structure remains unchanged under uniformly small perturbations of the quantum double Hamiltonians. (joint work with Matthew Cha and Pieter Naaijkens)