Ground state degeneracy on torus in a family of ZN toric code

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  • Haruki Watanabe
    Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo 1 , Tokyo, Japan
  • Meng Cheng
    Department of Physics, Yale University 2 , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
  • Yohei Fuji
    Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo 1 , Tokyo, Japan

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<jats:p>Topologically ordered phases in 2 + 1 dimensions are generally characterized by three mutually related features: fractionalized (anyonic) excitations, topological entanglement entropy, and robust ground state degeneracy that does not require symmetry protection or spontaneous symmetry breaking. Such a degeneracy is known as topological degeneracy and can be usually seen under the periodic boundary condition regardless of the choice of the system sizes L1 and L2 in each direction. In this work, we introduce a family of extensions of the Kitaev toric code to N level spins (N ≥ 2). The model realizes topologically ordered phases or symmetry-protected topological phases depending on the parameters in the model. The most remarkable feature of topologically ordered phases is that the ground state may be unique, depending on L1 and L2, despite that the translation symmetry of the model remains unbroken. Nonetheless, the topological entanglement entropy takes the nontrivial value. We argue that this behavior originates from the nontrivial action of translations permuting anyon species.</jats:p>

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