Spectrum of the non-abelian phase in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model

Annals of Physics

Volumn 323, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2286-2310

  Lahtinen, Ville ^a   Kells, Graham ^b   Carollo, Angelo ^c   Stitt, Tim ^d   Vala, Jiri ^b   Pachos, Jiannis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Kitaev's model; Non abelian vortices; Topological models

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749092405     PISSN: 00034916     EISSN: 1096035X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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