Published April 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Majorana meets Coxeter: Non-Abelian Majorana fermions and non-Abelian statistics

  • 1. KEK Theory Center, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, and Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521 (Japan)

Description

We discuss statistics of vortices having zero-energy non-Abelian Majorana fermions inside them. Considering the system of multiple non-Abelian vortices, we derive a non-Abelian statistics that differs from the previously derived non-Abelian statistics. The non-Abelian statistics presented here is given by a tensor product of two different groups, namely the non-Abelian statistics obeyed by the Abelian Majorana fermions and the Coxeter group. The Coxeter group is a symmetric group related to the symmetry of polytopes in a high-dimensional space. As the simplest example, we consider the case in which a vortex contains three Majorana fermions that are mixed with each other under the SO(3) transformations. We concretely present the representation of the Coxeter group in our case and its geometrical expressions in the high-dimensional Hilbert space constructed from non-Abelian Majorana fermions.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
13
Journal Page Range
p. 134518-134518.6
ISSN
1098-0121

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43017282
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
FERMIONS; HILBERT SPACE; MAJORANA THEORY; STATISTICS; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS; VORTICES
Descriptors DEC
BANACH SPACE; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; SPACE

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