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cond-mat.str-el2005
Detecting topological order in a ground state wave function
Michael Levin, Xiao-Gang Wen
A large class of topological orders can be understood and classified using the string-net condensation picture. These topological orders can be characterized by a set of data (N, d…
hep-th2005
Quantum ether: photons and electrons from a rotor model
Michael Levin, Xiao-Gang Wen
We give an example of a purely bosonic model -- a rotor model on the 3D cubic lattice -- whose low energy excitations behave like massless U(1) gauge bosons and massless Dirac ferm…