2011/03/31 by Ahmet Tuna Bolukbasi, Jiri Vala
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Context (archaeology) #Degenerate energy levels #Geometric phase #Hamiltonian (control theory) #Lattice (music) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quadratic equation #Quantum #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topological quantum computer #Vortex #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/045007
published as New Journal of Physics: NJP 14 (2012) 045007 · 27 pages, 9 figures, 3 appendices
openalex publication_date 2012/04/10 · arxiv created 2012/04/17 · arxiv updated 2015/03/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We develop a rigorous and highly accurate technique for the calculation of the Berry phase in systems with a quadratic Hamiltonian within the context of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model. The method is based on the recently found solution of the model that uses the Jordan–Wigner-type fermionization in an exact effective spin-hardcore boson representation. We specifically simulate the braiding of two non-Abelian vortices (anyons) in a four-vortex system characterized by a twofold degenerate ground state. The result of the braiding is the non-Abelian Berry matrix, which is in excellent agreement with the predictions of the effective field theory. The most precise results of our simulation are characterized by an error of the order of 10 −5 or lower. We observe exponential decay of the error with the distance between vortices, studied in the range of one to nine plaquettes. We also study its correlation with the involved energy gaps and provide a preliminary analysis of the relevant adiabaticity conditions. The work allows one to investigate the Berry phase in other lattice models including the Yao–Kivelson model and particularly the square–octagon model. It also opens up the possibility of studying the Berry phase under non-adiabatic and other effects that may constitute important sources of errors in topological quantum computation.