Parafermions with symmetry-protected non-Abelian statistics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09602v2
• Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:52:48 GMT
• Title: Parafermions with symmetry-protected non-Abelian statistics
• Authors: Jian-Song Hong, Su-Qi Zhang, Xin Liu, Xiong-Jun Liu,
• Abstract summary: We extend the concept of SPNA statistics to strongly-correlated systems which host parafermion zero modes (PZMs) We unveil a generic unitary symmetry mechanism that protects PZMs from local couplings. We prove rigorously that the PZMs intrinsically obey SPNA statistics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Non-Abelian anyons have garnered extensive attention for obeying exotic non-Abelian statistics and having potential applications to fault-tolerant quantum computing. While the prior research has predominantly focused on non-Abelian statistics without the necessity of symmetry protection, recent progresses have shown that symmetries can play essential roles and bring a notion of the symmetry-protected non-Abelian (SPNA) statistics. In this work, we extend the concept of SPNA statistics to strongly-correlated systems which host parafermion zero modes (PZMs). This study involves a few fundamental results proved here. First, we unveil a generic unitary symmetry mechanism that protects PZMs from local couplings. Then, with this symmetry protection, the PZMs can be categorized into two nontrivial sectors, each maintaining its own parity conservation, even though the whole system cannot be dismantled into separate subsystems due to nonlinear interactions. Finally, by leveraging the parity conservation of each sector and the general properties of the effective braiding Hamiltonian, we prove rigorously that the PZMs intrinsically obey SPNA statistics. To further confirm the results, we derive the braiding matrix at a tri-junction. We also propose a correlated quantum nanowire model that accommodates a pair of PZMs protected by mirror symmetry and satisfying the generic theory. This work shows a broad spectrum of strongly-correlated systems capable of hosting fractional SPNA quasiparticles and enriches our comprehension of fundamental quantum statistics linked to the symmetries that govern the exchange dynamics.

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