on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Ville Lahtinen and Jiannis K. Pachos

We demonstrate the existence of a topologically ordered phase in Kitaev’s honeycomb lattice model. This phase appears due to the presence of a vortex lattice and it supports chiral Abelian anyons. We characterize the phase by its low-energy behavior that is described by a distinct number of Dirac fe...

[Phys. Rev. B 81, 245132] Published Wed Jun 30, 2010