Generalized Kitaev Models and Slave Genons

Abstract

We present a wide class of partially integrable lattice models with two-spin interactions, which generalize the Kitaev honeycomb model. These models have an infinite number of conserved quantities associated with each plaquette of the lattice, conserved large loop operators on the torus, and protected topological degeneracy. We introduce a `slave-genon' approach, which generalizes the Majorana fermion approach in the Kitaev honeycomb model. The Hilbert space of our spin model can be embedded into an enlarged Hilbert space of non-Abelian twist defects, referred to as genons. In the enlarged Hilbert space, the spin model is exactly reformulated as a model of non-Abelian genons coupled to a discrete gauge field. We discuss in detail a particular $Z_3$ generalization, and show that in a certain limit the model is analytically tractable and may produce a non-Abelian topological phase with chiral parafermion edge states.

5 pages main text + 8 pages appendix

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