Fusion rules of mobility

Abstract

In topological phases of matter, fusion rules dictate how anyonic topological charges combine. However, the transformation of quasiparticle mobility under fusion remains largely unexplored. In this Letter, we reveal that restricted mobility classes obey their own complex multi-channel fusion rules. We introduce three exactly solvable models with ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ topological order enriched by subsystem symmetries to explicitly demonstrate these structures. Within these models, mobility constraints arise from enforcing symmetries supported on specific subsets. When excitations fuse, these rigid geometric constraints interfere spatially. At the macroscopic level, this deterministic geometric interference manifests as multi-channel fusion rules. We present three explicit examples: (i) Fibonacci fusion rules; (ii) tensor products of Fibonacci rules; and (iii) lineon period transmutation.

arXiv commentMaintext+SM. published in PRB (2026) as a Letter. The other two works in this series are arXiv:2401.00505 [PRX Quantum 5, 030342 (2024)] and arXiv:2605.13379