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Condensation-driven phase transitions in perturbed string nets

(2017) PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 96(15).
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We develop methods to probe the excitation spectrum of topological phases of matter in two spatial dimensions. Applying these to the Fibonacci string nets perturbed away from exact solvability, we analyze a topological phase transition driven by the condensation of non-Abelian anyons. Our numerical results illustrate how such phase transitions involve the spontaneous breaking of a topological symmetry, generalizing the traditional Landau paradigm. The main technical tool is the characterization of the ground states using tensor networks and the topological properties using matrix-product-operator symmetries. The topological phase transition manifests itself by symmetry breaking in the entanglement degrees of freedom of the quantum transfer matrix.
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MATRIX PRODUCT STATES, RENORMALIZATION-GROUP, TOPOLOGICAL ORDER, POTTS-MODEL, QUANTUM, ANYONS

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MLA
Mariën, Michaël, et al. “Condensation-Driven Phase Transitions in Perturbed String Nets.” PHYSICAL REVIEW B, vol. 96, no. 15, 2017, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155127.
APA
Mariën, M., Haegeman, J., Fendley, P., & Verstraete, F. (2017). Condensation-driven phase transitions in perturbed string nets. PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 96(15). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155127
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Mariën, Michaël, Jutho Haegeman, Paul Fendley, and Frank Verstraete. 2017. “Condensation-Driven Phase Transitions in Perturbed String Nets.” PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 (15). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155127.
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Mariën, Michaël, Jutho Haegeman, Paul Fendley, and Frank Verstraete. 2017. “Condensation-Driven Phase Transitions in Perturbed String Nets.” PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 (15). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155127.
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Mariën M, Haegeman J, Fendley P, Verstraete F. Condensation-driven phase transitions in perturbed string nets. PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 2017;96(15).
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M. Mariën, J. Haegeman, P. Fendley, and F. Verstraete, “Condensation-driven phase transitions in perturbed string nets,” PHYSICAL REVIEW B, vol. 96, no. 15, 2017.
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