Non-Abelian topological order on the surface of a 3d topological superconductor from an exactly solved model

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Fidkowski, Lukasz ^a   Chen, Xie ^b   Vishwanath, Ashvin ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK ELECTRONS; EXPLICIT MODELING; QUASIPARTICLES; STRONG INTERACTION; SYMMETRIC SURFACES; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; TOPOLOGICAL ORDER; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84893646808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041016     Document Type: Article

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