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Phys. Rev. B 40, 7387–7390 (1989)

Vacuum degeneracy of chiral spin states in compactified space

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X. G. Wen
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

Received 10 May 1989; published in the issue dated 1 October 1989

A chiral spin state is not only characterized by the T and P order parameter E123=S1(S2×S3), it is also characterized by an integer k. In this paper we show that this integer k can be determined from the vacuum degeneracy of the chiral spin state on compactified spaces. On a Riemann surface with genus g the vacuum degeneracy of the chiral spin state is found to be 2kg. Among those vacuum states, some kg states have 〈E123〉>0, while other kg states have 〈E123〉<0. The dependence of the vacuum degeneracy on the topology of the space reflects some sort of topological ordering in the chiral spin state. In general the topological ordering in a system is classified by topological theories.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.40.7387
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.40.7387
PACS:
75.10.-b, 61.20.-p, 67.90.+z