TY - JOUR
T1 - Topological phase transitions in the golden string-net model
AU - Schulz, Marc Daniel
AU - Dusuel, Sébastien
AU - Schmidt, Kai Phillip
AU - Vidal, Julien
PY - 2013/4/2
Y1 - 2013/4/2
N2 - We examine the zero-temperature phase diagram of the two-dimensional Levin-Wen string-net model with Fibonacci anyons in the presence of competing interactions. Combining high-order series expansions around three exactly solvable points and exact diagonalizations, we find that the non-Abelian doubled Fibonacci topological phase is separated from two nontopological phases by different second-order quantum critical points, the positions of which are computed accurately. These trivial phases are separated by a first-order transition occurring at a fourth exactly solvable point where the ground-state manifold is infinitely many degenerate. The evaluation of critical exponents suggests unusual universality classes.
AB - We examine the zero-temperature phase diagram of the two-dimensional Levin-Wen string-net model with Fibonacci anyons in the presence of competing interactions. Combining high-order series expansions around three exactly solvable points and exact diagonalizations, we find that the non-Abelian doubled Fibonacci topological phase is separated from two nontopological phases by different second-order quantum critical points, the positions of which are computed accurately. These trivial phases are separated by a first-order transition occurring at a fourth exactly solvable point where the ground-state manifold is infinitely many degenerate. The evaluation of critical exponents suggests unusual universality classes.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.147203
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.147203
M3 - Article
C2 - 25167030
AN - SCOPUS:84875991151
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 110
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 14
M1 - 147203
ER -