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- The text discusses models of quantum spin Hamiltonians using anyons, highlighting how neighboring anyons prefer to fuse into a trivial channel, paralleling the behavior of spins in the Heisenberg model.
- Numerical simulations of Fibonacci anyons reveal that this model is critical, exhibiting a dynamical critical exponent of z=1, and corresponds to a 2D conformal field theory with a central charge of c=7/10.
- An exact relationship is established between the anyonic chain and the 2D tricritical Ising model through the restricted-solid-on-solid representation of the Temperley-Lieb algebra, with the gaplessness of the chain being attributed to topological factors.
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We discuss generalizations of quantum spin Hamiltonians using anyonic degrees of freedom. The simplest model for interacting anyons energetically favors neighboring anyons to fuse into the trivial ("identity") channel, similar to the quantum Heisenberg model favoring neighboring spins to form spin singlets. Numerical simulations of a chain of Fibonacci anyons show that the model is critical with a dynamical critical exponent z=1, and described by a two-dimensional (2D) conformal field theory with central charge c=7/10. An exact mapping of the anyonic chain onto the 2D tricritical Ising model is given using the restricted-solid-on-solid representation of the Temperley-Lieb algebra. The gaplessness of the chain is shown to have topological origin.
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