Dresden 2009 – scientific programme

Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Downloads | Help

TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 20: Correlated Electrons: (General) Theory 1

TT 20.1: Talk

Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 15:30–15:45, HSZ 301

Anyons as Landau Quasi-Particles - Kitaev’s Toric Code in a magnetic Field — •Kai Phillip Schmidt¹, Sébastien Dusuel², Ronny Thomale³, and Julien Vidal⁴ — ¹Lehrstuhl für theoretische Physik I, TU Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany — ²Lycée Saint-Louis, 44 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France — ³Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany — ⁴LPTMC, Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

Kitaev’s Toric Code is an exactly solvable two-dimensional spin model which is relevant for topological quantum computation. Elementary excitations are abelian anyons which are strictly local due to conservation laws. In the presence of a finite external magnetic field, the anyonic excitations gain a kinetic energy and they start to interact. Using perturbative continuous unitary transformations, we set up a true quasi-particle description of the abelian anyons inside the topological phase. We study one-particle properties like the anyon dispersion but also the formation of bound states including two or more anyon excitations. These collective modes turn out to be fermions or bosons. Finally, we study the full phase diagram of the model which turns out to be very rich including multi-criticality and self-duality on different lines in parameter space. The critical properties of the model therefore strongly depend on the direction of the magnetic field. Apart from perturbative continuous unitary transformations we use exact diagonalization as a complentary tool.