Dresden 2017 – scientific programme

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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 16: Transport: Topological Phases (jointly with DS, MA, HL, O)

TT 16.6: Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 16:15–16:30, HSZ 304

Fermionic topological quantum states as tensor networks — •Carolin Wille, Oliver Buerschaper, and Jens Eisert — Institut für theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin

Tensor network states, and in particular projected entangled pair states, play an important role in the description of strongly correlated quantum lattice systems. They do not only serve as variational states in numerical simulation methods, but also provide a framework for classifying phases of quantum matter and capture notions of topological order in a stringent and rigorous language. The rapid development in this field for spin models and bosonic systems has not yet been mirrored by an analogous development for fermionic models. In this work, we introduce a tensor network formalism capable of capturing notions of topological order for quantum systems with fermionic components. At the heart of the formalism are axioms of fermionic matrix product operator injectivity, stable under concatenation. Building upon that, we formulate a Grassmann number tensor network ansatz for the ground state of fermionic twisted quantum double models. A specific focus is put on the paradigmatic example of the fermionic toric code. This work shows that the program of describing topologically ordered systems using tensor networks carries over to fermionic models.