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In this set of lectures, we will start with a brief pedagogical introduction to abelian anyons and their properties. This will essentially cover the background material with an introduction to basic concepts in anyon physics, fractional statistics, braid groups, and abelian anyons. The next topic that we will study is a specific exactly solvable model, called the toric code model, whose excitations have (mutual) anyon statistics. Then we will go on to discuss non-abelian anyons, where we will use the one dimensional Kitaev model as a prototypical example to produce Majorana modes at the edge. We will then explicitly derive the non-abelian unitary matrices under exchange of these Majorana modes.
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Rao, S. (2017). Introduction to abelian and non-abelian anyons. In: Bhattacharjee, S., Mj, M., Bandyopadhyay, A. (eds) Topology and Condensed Matter Physics. Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6841-6_16
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