Ultimate braid-group generators for coordinate exchanges of Ising anyons from the multi-anyon Pfaffian wavefunctions
Creators
- 1. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tsarigradsko Chaussee 72, 1784 Sofia (Bulgaria)
- 2. Institut fuer Mathematische Physik, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 3, 38106 Braunschweig (Germany)
Description
We give a rigorous and self-consistent derivation of the elementary braid matrices representing the exchanges of adjacent Ising anyons in the two inequivalent representations of the Pfaffian quantum Hall states with even and odd numbers of Majorana fermions. To this end we use the distinct operator product expansions of the chiral spin fields in the Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sectors of the two-dimensional Ising conformal field theory. We find recursive relations for the generators of the irreducible representations of the braid group B2n+2 in terms of those for B2n, as well as explicit formulae for almost all braid matrices for exchanges of Ising anyons. Finally we prove that the braid-group representations obtained from the multi-anyon Pfaffian wavefunctions are completely equivalent to the spinor representations of SO(2n + 2) and give the equivalence matrices explicitly. This actually proves that the correlation functions of 2n chiral Ising spin fields σ do indeed realize one of the two inequivalent spinor representations of the rotation group SO(2n) as conjectured by Nayak and Wilczek
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/42/22/225203Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/1751-8113/42/22/225203;
- PII
- S1751-8113(09)02478-0;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 42
- Journal Issue
- 22
- Journal Page Range
- [21 p.]
- ISSN
- 1751-8121
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40074363
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANYONS; CHIRALITY; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; FERMIONS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; MATRICES; OPERATOR PRODUCT EXPANSION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPIN; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUASI PARTICLES; SERIES EXPANSION