Condensed Matter Theory Seminar | December 18, 14:00
The mathematics of topologically ordered phases
One of the most interesting properties of topologically ordered models with
long ranged entanglement, such as Kitaev's toric code, is that they have
anyonic excitations. The properties of these anyons can be recovered from
first principles using techniques from mathematical physics, making it
possible to put conjectures about such systems in a precise mathematical
language. After explaining the main ideas behind this construction, I will
discuss recent results on the stability of the excitation structure and on
applications to quantum information theory.
RWTH Aachen
Seminar Room 0.03, ETP
Contact: Simon Trebst