Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Majorana Fermions and representations of the braid group. / Kauffman, Louis H.
In: International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 33, No. 23, 1830023, 20.08.2018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
}
TY - JOUR
T1 - Majorana Fermions and representations of the braid group
AU - Kauffman, Louis H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/8/20
Y1 - 2018/8/20
N2 - In this paper we study unitary braid group representations associated with Majorana Fermions. Majorana Fermions are represented by Majorana operators, elements of a Clifford algebra. The paper recalls and proves a general result about braid group representations associated with Clifford algebras, and compares this result with the Ivanov braiding associated with Majorana operators. The paper generalizes observations of Kauffman and Lomonaco and of Mo-Lin Ge to show that certain strings of Majorana operators give rise to extraspecial 2-groups and to braiding representations of the Ivanov type.
AB - In this paper we study unitary braid group representations associated with Majorana Fermions. Majorana Fermions are represented by Majorana operators, elements of a Clifford algebra. The paper recalls and proves a general result about braid group representations associated with Clifford algebras, and compares this result with the Ivanov braiding associated with Majorana operators. The paper generalizes observations of Kauffman and Lomonaco and of Mo-Lin Ge to show that certain strings of Majorana operators give rise to extraspecial 2-groups and to braiding representations of the Ivanov type.
KW - braid group
KW - braids
KW - extraspecial 2-group
KW - Fermion
KW - Kitaev chain
KW - Knots
KW - links
KW - Majorana Fermion
KW - Majorana string
KW - quantum computing
KW - quantum process
KW - Yang-Baxter equation
KW - ENTANGLEMENT
KW - QUANTUM KNOTS
KW - OPERATORS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051961145&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1142/S0217751X18300235
DO - 10.1142/S0217751X18300235
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051961145
VL - 33
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics A
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics A
SN - 0217-751X
IS - 23
M1 - 1830023
ER -
ID: 16111613