Constructing non-Abelian quantum spin liquids using combinatorial gauge symmetry
Dmitry Green, Claudio Chamon
SciPost Phys. 15, 067 (2023) · published 22 August 2023
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.2.067
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Abstract
We construct Hamiltonians with only 1- and 2-body interactions that exhibit an exact non-Abelian gauge symmetry (specifically, combinatiorial gauge symmetry). Our spin Hamiltonian realizes the quantum double associated to the group of quaternions. It contains only ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic $ZZ$ interactions, plus longitudinal and transverse fields, and therefore is an explicit example of a spin Hamiltonian with no sign problem that realizes a non-Abelian topological phase. In addition to the spin model, we propose a superconducting quantum circuit version with the same symmetry.
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