Ground-state degeneracy for abelian anyons in the presence of gapped boundaries

2013/06/18 by Anton Kapustin · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.89.125307

6 pages

arxiv created 2013/06/18 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16

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.

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