A nonabelian anyon violates Haag duality

Abstract:We show that a superselction sector describing a single nonabelian anyon violates Haag duality, which is equivalent to the fundamental quantum-information theoretic principle of uniqueness of purifications. We provide a simple physics argument as well as a rigorous proof using sector theory, and instantiate our result concretely in Levin-Wen models. We also show that the associated ground state does not allow for quantum steering despite being a pure state. Finally, we show that this ground state violates approximate Haag duality, disproving the conjecture that all gapped ground states satisfy this condition. Our result implies that there are gapped phases of matter where Haag duality fails at every point in the phase.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Operator Algebras (math.OA)

arXiv:2609.01267 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.01267v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.01267 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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