Abstract
We introduce and study a class of anyon models that are a natural generalization of Ising anyons and Majorana fermion zero modes. These models combine an Ising anyon sector with a sector associated with Chern-Simons theory. We show how they can arise in a simple scenario for electron fractionalization and give a complete account of their quasiparticle types, fusion rules, and braiding. We show that the image of the braid group is finite for a collection of fundamental quasiparticles and is a proper subgroup of the metaplectic representation of , where is the symplectic group over the finite field and is the extra special group (also called the -dimensional Heisenberg group) over . Moreover, the braiding of fundamental quasiparticles combined with a restricted set of measurements can be efficiently simulated classically. However, computing the result of braiding a certain type of composite quasiparticle followed by fusion into the identity is -hard. It is not universal for quantum computation because it has a finite braid group image. This is a rare example of a topological phase that is not universal for quantum computation through braiding but nevertheless has -hard link invariants. We argue that our models are closely related to recent analyses finding non-Abelian anyonic properties for defects in quantum Hall systems, generalizing Majorana zero modes in quasi-1D systems.
- Received 11 December 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.165421
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