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hep-th2007★ 4 cited
Noncommuting Flux Sectors in a Tabletop Experiment
Alexei Kitaev, Gregory W. Moore, Kevin Walker
We show how one can use superconductors and Josephson junctions to create a laboratory system which can explore the groundstates of the free electromagnetic field in a 3-manifold w…
hep-th2005
Topological entanglement entropy
Alexei Kitaev, John Preskill
We formulate a universal characterization of the many-particle quantum entanglement in the ground state of a topologically ordered two-dimensional medium with a mass gap. We consid…