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| author | Ritz-Zwilling, Anna Fuchs, Jean-Noël Simon, Steven H. Vidal, Julien |
| author_facet | Ritz-Zwilling, Anna Fuchs, Jean-Noël Simon, Steven H. Vidal, Julien |
| contents | Generalized string-net models have been recently proposed in order to enlarge the set of possible topological quantum phases emerging from the original string-net construction. In the present work, we do not consider vertex excitations and restrict to plaquette excitations, or fluxons, that satisfy important identities. We explain how to compute the energy-level degeneracies of the generalized string-net Hamiltonian associated to an arbitrary unitary fusion category. In contrast to the degeneracy of the ground state, which is purely topological, that of excited energy levels depends not only on the Drinfeld center of the category, but also on internal multiplicities obtained from the tube algebra defined from the category. For a noncommutative category, these internal multiplicities result in extra nontopological degeneracies. Our results are valid for any trivalent graph and any orientable surface. We illustrate our findings with nontrivial examples. |
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| spellingShingle | Topological and nontopological degeneracies in generalized string-net models Ritz-Zwilling, Anna Fuchs, Jean-Noël Simon, Steven H. Vidal, Julien Other Condensed Matter Quantum Physics Generalized string-net models have been recently proposed in order to enlarge the set of possible topological quantum phases emerging from the original string-net construction. In the present work, we do not consider vertex excitations and restrict to plaquette excitations, or fluxons, that satisfy important identities. We explain how to compute the energy-level degeneracies of the generalized string-net Hamiltonian associated to an arbitrary unitary fusion category. In contrast to the degeneracy of the ground state, which is purely topological, that of excited energy levels depends not only on the Drinfeld center of the category, but also on internal multiplicities obtained from the tube algebra defined from the category. For a noncommutative category, these internal multiplicities result in extra nontopological degeneracies. Our results are valid for any trivalent graph and any orientable surface. We illustrate our findings with nontrivial examples. |
| title | Topological and nontopological degeneracies in generalized string-net models |
| topic | Other Condensed Matter Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00343 |