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Braid group representations from braiding gapped boundaries of Dijkgraaf-Witten theories. (English) Zbl 1445.18012

Summary: We study representations of the braid groups from braiding gapped boundaries of Dijkgraaf-Witten theories and their twisted generalizations, which are (twisted) quantum doubled topological orders in two spatial dimensions. We show that the braid representations associated to Lagrangian algebras are all monomial with respect to some specific bases. We give explicit formulas for the monomial matrices and the ground state degeneracy of the Kitaev models that are Hamiltonian realizations of Dijkgraaf-Witten theories. Our results imply that braiding gapped boundaries alone cannot provide universal gate sets for topological quantum computing with gapped boundaries.

MSC:

18M15 Braided monoidal categories and ribbon categories
20C35 Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science
20F36 Braid groups; Artin groups

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