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arXiv:2001.10578

Defects in Kitaev models and bicomodule algebras

Vincent Koppen

Published Jan 28, 2020• 1 citation
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Abstract

We construct a Kitaev model, consisting of a Hamiltonian which is the sum of commuting local projectors, for surfaces with boundaries and defects of dimension 0 and 1. More specifically, we show that one can consider cell decompositions of surfaces whose 2-cells are labeled by semisimple Hopf algebras and 1-cells are labeled by semisimple bicomodule algebras. We introduce an algebra whose representations label the 0-cells and which reduces to the Drinfeld double of a Hopf algebra in the absence of defects. In this way we generalize the algebraic structure underlying the standard Kitaev model without defects or boundaries, where all 1-cells and 2-cells are labeled by a single Hopf algebra and where point defects are labeled by representations of its Drinfeld double. In the standard case, commuting local projectors are constructed using the Haar integral for semisimple Hopf algebras. A central insight we gain in this paper is that in the presence of defects and boundaries, the suitable generalization of the Haar integral is given by the unique symmetric separability idempotent for a semisimple (bi-)comodule algebra.

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10.48550/arxiv.2001.10578

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We construct a Kitaev model, consisting of a Hamiltonian which is the sum of commuting local projectors, for surfaces with boundaries and defects of dimension 0 and 1. More specifically, we show that one can consider cell decompositions of surfaces whose 2-cells are labeled by semisimple Hopf algebras and 1-cells are labeled by semisimple bicomodule algebras. We introduce an algebra whose representations label the 0-cells and which reduces to the Drinfeld double of a Hopf algebra in the absence of defects. In this way we generalize the algebraic structure underlying the standard Kitaev model without defects or boundaries, where all 1-cells and 2-cells are labeled by a single Hopf algebra and where point defects are labeled by representations of its Drinfeld double. In the standard case, commuting local projectors are constructed using the Haar integral for semisimple Hopf algebras. A central insight we gain in this paper is that in the presence of defects and boundaries, the suitable generalization of the Haar integral is given by the unique symmetric separability idempotent for a semisimple (bi-)comodule algebra.
In this thesis we study algebraic structures that are important for models of commuting-projector Hamiltonians which realize topological phases of matter. The Kitaev model is such a model, where the projectors are defined using the structure of a semisimple Hopf algebra. In the first part of the thesis we construct a Kitaev model based on more general Hopf-algebraic data – semisimple bicomodule algebras – thereby implementing defects and boundaries. In the second part of the thesis we find generalizations of the idempotents used in the standard Kitaev model to non-semisimple Hopf algebras. More precisely, in the first part of the thesis, we construct a Kitaev model, consisting of a Hamiltonian which is the sum of commuting local projectors, for surfaces with boundaries and defects of dimension 0 and 1. Specifically, we show that one can consider cell decompositions of surfaces whose 2-cells are labeled by semisimple Hopf algebras and 1-cells are labeled by semisimple bicomodule algebras. We introduce an algebra whose representations label the 0-cells and which reduces to the Drinfeld double of a Hopf algebra in the absence of defects. In this way we generalize the algebraic structure underlying the standard Kitaev model without defects or boundaries, where all 1-cells and 2-cells are labeled by a single Hopf algebra and where point defects are labeled by representations of its Drinfeld double. In the standard case, commuting local projectors are constructed using the Haar integral for semisimple Hopf algebras. A central insight we gain in this theis is that in the presence of defects and boundaries, the suitable generalization of the Haar integral is given by the unique symmetric separability idempotent for a semisimple (bi-)comodule algebra. This enables us to provide an explicit construction of a Kitaev model allowing for defects and boundaries. In the second part of the thesis we obtain representation-theoretic results. We study the isotypic decomposition of the regular module of a not necessarily semisimple, finite-dimensional Hopf algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. For a semisimple Hopf algebra, it is known that the idempotents realizing the isotypic decomposition can be explicitly expressed in terms of characters and the Haar integral. Here we investigate Hopf algebras with the Chevalley property, which are not necessarily semisimple. We find explicit expressions for idempotents in terms of Hopf-algebraic data, where we replace the Haar integral by the regular character of the dual Hopf algebra. For a large class of Hopf algebras we show that these form a complete set of orthogonal idempotents. Finally, we give an example which illustrates that the Chevalley property is crucial. 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Wir finden explizite Ausdrucke fur Idempotente durch Hopf-algebraische Daten, wobei wir das Haar-Integral durch den regularen Charakter der dualen Hopf-Algebra ersetzen. Fur eine grose Klasse von Hopf-Algebren zeigen wir, dass diese einen vollstandigen Satz orthogonaler Idempotente bilden. Abschliesend geben wir ein Beispiel, das zeigt, dass die Chevalley-Eigenschaft von entscheidender Bedeutung ist.
The construction of the topologically protected code space of Kitaev's model for fault-tolerant quantum computation is extended from complex semisimple to arbitrary finite-dimensional Hopf algebras admitting pairs in involution. One input of the model are ribbon graphs, that is, the combinatorial data of cellular decompositions of oriented closed surfaces. The other input are certain Hopf bimodules that are closely related to the coefficients in Hopf-cyclic homology. As in previous generalisations of the Kitaev model, a Yetter-Drinfeld module is constructed and shown to be a topological invariant of the surface with boundary that is obtained by "thickening" the graph. The generalisation of the protected space is defined using bitensor products of modules-comodules. Provided that the Hopf bimodule coefficients correspond to pairs in involution, this is shown to depend only on the genus of the graph. As examples, group algebras of finite groups and bosonisations of Nichols algebras are considered.
Kitaev's lattice models are usually defined as representations of the Drinfeld quantum double. We propose a new version based on Majid's bicrossproduct quantum group. Given a Hopf algebra HHH, we show that a triangulated oriented surface defines a representation of the bicrossproduct quantum group Hcop▶ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣◃HH^{\text{cop}}\blacktriangleright\!\!\!\triangleleft HHcop▶◃H. Even though the bicrossproduct has a more complicated and entangled coproduct, the construction of this new model is relatively natural as it relies on the use of the covariant Hopf algebra actions. We obtain an exactly solvable Hamiltonian for the model and provide a definition of the ground state in terms of a tensor network representation.
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