Creation and Manipulation of Anyons in the Kitaev Model
arXiv:0802.0379 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.177204
Abstract
We analyze the effect of local spin operators in the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice. We show, in perturbation around the isolated-dimer limit, that they create Abelian anyons together with fermionic excitations which are likely to play a role in experiments. We derive the explicit form of the operators creating and moving Abelian anyons without creating fermions and show that it involves multi-spin operations. Finally, the important experimental constraints stemming from our results are discussed.
4 pages, 3 figures, published version