Classification of topological orders
Speaker: Theo Johnson-Freyd
Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021
Location: Zoom, Online
Conference: CMS Scientific Session on Quantum Mathematics
Subject: Mathematics, Physics, Condensed Matter and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Computing
Class: Scientific
CRG: Quantum Topology and its Applications
Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2021
Location: Zoom, Online
Conference: CMS Scientific Session on Quantum Mathematics
Subject: Mathematics, Physics, Condensed Matter and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Computing
Class: Scientific
CRG: Quantum Topology and its Applications
Abstract:
Topological orders have a mathematical axiomatization in terms of their higher fusion categories of extended operators; the characterizing property of these higher fusion categories is that they are satisfy a nondegeneracy condition. After overviewing some of the higher category theory that goes into this axiomatization, I will describe what we do and don't know about the classification of topological orders in various dimensions.