The parastatistics of braided Majorana fermions
Francesco Toppan
SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 046 (2023) · published 24 November 2023
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.14.046
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34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
Abstract
This paper presents the parastatistics of braided Majorana fermions obtained in the framework of a graded Hopf algebra endowed with a braided tensor product. The braiding property is encoded in a t-dependent 4×4 braiding matrix $B_t$ related to the Alexander-Conway polynomial. The nonvanishing complex parameter t defines the braided parastatistics. At t=1 ordinary fermions are recovered. The values of t at roots of unity are organized into levels which specify the maximal number of braided Majorana fermions in a multiparticle sector. Generic values of t and the t=-1 root of unity mimick the behaviour of ordinary bosons.