Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 671039, 18 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/671039
Research Article
Microscopic Description of 2D Topological Phases, Duality, and 3D State Sums
1Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 75, 10131 Torino, Italy
2Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Sezione di Pavia, via A. Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
3Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino, corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Received 7 September 2009; Accepted 23 January 2010
Academic Editor: Debashish Goswami
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Abstract
Doubled topological phases introduced by Kitaev, Levin, and Wen supported
on two-dimensional lattices are Hamiltonian versions of three-dimensional
topological quantum field theories described by the Turaev-Viro state
sum models. We introduce the latter with an emphasis on obtaining them
from theories in the continuum. Equivalence of the previous models in the
ground state is shown in case of the honeycomb lattice and the gauge group
being a finite group by means of the well-known duality transformation between
the group algebra and the spin network basis of lattice gauge theory.
An analysis of the ribbon operators describing excitations in both types of
models and the three-dimensional geometrical interpretation are given.