Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?
Braiding statistics approach to symmetry-protected topological phases
We construct a two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin model that realizes an Ising paramagnet with gapless edge modes protected by Ising symmetry. This model provides an example of a ``symmetry-protected topological phase.'' We describe a simple physical construction that distinguishes this system from a conventional paramagnet: We couple the system to …