{ "id": "1008.1819", "version": "v1", "published": "2010-08-11T00:32:47.000Z", "updated": "2010-08-11T00:32:47.000Z", "title": "Monte Carlo Simulations of Interacting Anyon Chains", "authors": [ "Huan Tran", "N. E. Bonesteel" ], "comment": "4 pages, 5 figures", "journal": "Computational Materials Science 49, S395 (2010)", "doi": "10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.03.008", "categories": [ "cond-mat.dis-nn" ], "abstract": "A generalized version of the valence-bond Monte Carlo method is used to study ground state properties of the 1+1 dimensional quantum $Q$-state Potts models. For appropriate values of $Q$ these models can be used to describe interacting chains of non-Abelian anyons --- quasiparticle excitations of certain exotic fractional quantum Hall states.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2010-08-11T00:32:47.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "monte carlo simulations", "interacting anyon chains", "exotic fractional quantum hall states", "valence-bond monte carlo method", "study ground state properties" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010arXiv1008.1819T" } } }