Spectrum of the non-abelian phase in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model

Details Spectrum of the non-abelian phase in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model Spectrum of the non-abelian phase in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model

2007-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1164v3

Ann. Phys. 323, 2286 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

32 pages, 13 figures; corrected typos and changed SU(2)_2 to Ising

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.aop.2007.12.009

The spectral properties of Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model are investigated both analytically and numerically with the focus on the non-abelian phase of the model. After summarizing the fermionization technique which maps spins into free Majorana fermions, we evaluate the spectrum of sparse vortex configurations and derive the interaction between two vortices as a function of their separation. We consider the effect vortices can have on the fermionic spectrum as well as on the phase transition between the abelian and non-abelian phases. We explicitly demonstrate the $2^n$-fold ground state degeneracy in the presence of $2n$ well separated vortices and the lifting of the degeneracy due to their short-range interactions. The calculations are performed on an infinite lattice. In addition to the analytic treatment, a numerical study of finite size systems is performed which is in exact agreement with the theoretical considerations. The general spectral properties of the non-abelian phase are considered for various finite toroidal systems.

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