Rigorous Calculations of Non-Abelian Statistics in the Kitaev Honeycomb Model

Details Rigorous Calculations of Non-Abelian Statistics in the Kitaev Honeycomb Model Rigorous Calculations of Non-Abelian Statistics in the Kitaev Honeycomb Model

2011-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3061v2

New Journal of Physics: NJP 14 (2012) 045007

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

27 pages, 9 figures, 3 appendices

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/045007

We develop a rigorous and highly accurate technique for calculation of the Berry phase in systems with a quadratic Hamiltonian within the context of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model. The method is based on the recently found solution of the model which uses the Jordan-Wigner-type fermionization in an exact effective spin-hardcore boson representation. We specifically simulate the braiding of two non-Abelian vortices (anyons) in a four vortex system characterized by a two-fold degenerate ground state. The result of the braiding is the non-Abelian Berry matrix which is in excellent agreement with the predictions of the effective field theory. The most precise results of our simulation are characterized by an error on the order of $10^{-5}$ or lower. We observe exponential decay of the error with the distance between vortices, studied in the range from one to nine plaquettes. We also study its correlation with the involved energy gaps and provide preliminary analysis of the relevant adiabaticity conditions. The work allows to investigate the Berry phase in other lattice models including the Yao-Kivelson model and particularly the square-octagon model. It also opens the possibility of studying the Berry phase under non-adiabatic and other effects which may constitute important sources of errors in topological quantum computation.

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