AG Lie-Gruppen: V. Mulevičius, Vilniaus Universitetas Litauen: Internal Levin-Wen Models

Internal Levin-Wen Models – Vortragender: Vincentas Mulevičius, Vilniaus
Universitetas Litauen – Einladende: Catherine Meusburger

Abstract: In this talk we will discuss (2+1)-dimensional topological phases of
matter. In particular we will recall how they arise as degenerate ground
states of lattice systems having a gapped Hamiltonian. Examples of this are
the Kitaev toric code, based on a lattice of spin-1/2 particles, as well as
its generalisations \- the Kitaev lattice model based on Hopf algebras, and
the Levin-Wen model based on fusion categories. The focus of this talk is
going to be a construction allowing one to engineer a new topological order
out of anyonic excitations of a given one. This construction is an analogue of
the aforementioned lattice models and is best described using a universal
language of topologcial quantum field theories with defects, which we will
also recall.