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Emergent Exclusion Statistics of Fibonacci Anyons in 2D Topological Phases
Yuting Hu, Spencer D. Stirling, Yong-Shi Wu
We demonstrate how the generalized Pauli exclusion principle emerges for quasiparticle excitations in 2d topological phases. As an example, we examine the Levin-Wen model with the…
Ground State Degeneracy in the Levin-Wen Model for Topological Phases
Yuting Hu, Spencer D. Stirling, Yong-Shi Wu
We study properties of topological phases by calculating the ground state degeneracy (GSD) of the 2d Levin-Wen (LW) model. Here it is explicitly shown that the GSD depends only on…
Counterexamples in Levin-Wen string-net models, group categories, and Turaev unimodality
Spencer D. Stirling
We remark on the claim that the string-net model of Levin and Wen is a microscopic Hamiltonian formulation of the Turaev-Viro topological quantum field theory. Using simple counter…
Braided Categorical Quantum Mechanics I
Spencer D. Stirling, Yong-Shi Wu
This is the first paper in a series where we generalize the Categorical Quantum Mechanics program (due to Abramsky, Coecke, et al) to braided systems. In our view a uniform descrip…
Abelian Chern-Simons theory with toral gauge group, modular tensor categories, and group categories
Spencer D. Stirling
Classical and quantum Chern-Simons with gauge group were classified by Belov and Moore in \cite{belov_moore}. They studied both ordinary topological quantum field t…
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with Gaussian Inhomogeneous Neutrino Degeneracy
Spencer D. Stirling, Robert J. Scherrer
We consider the effect of inhomogeneous neutrino degeneracy on Big Bang nucleosynthesis for the case where the distribution of neutrino chemical potentials is given by a Gaussian.…