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FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 150-159Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-011-0194-z
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topological quantum field theory (TQFT); topological insulator; premodular category
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Levin-Wen models are microscopic spin models for topological phases of matter in (2+1)-dimension. We introduce a generalization of such models to (3+1)-dimension based on unitary braided fusion categories, also known as unitary premodular categories. We discuss the ground state degeneracy on 3-manifolds and statistics of excitations which include both points and defect loops. Potential connections with recently proposed fractional topological insulators and projective ribbon permutation statistics are described.
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