Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177204 (2008) [4 pages]Creation and Manipulation of Anyons in the Kitaev ModelReceived 4 February 2008; published 30 April 2008 We analyze the effect of local spin operators in the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice. We show, in perturbation around the isolated-dimer limit, that they create Abelian anyons together with fermionic excitations which are likely to play a role in experiments. We derive the explicit form of the operators creating and moving Abelian anyons without creating fermions and show that it involves multispin operations. Finally, the important experimental constraints stemming from our results are discussed. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.177204
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.177204
PACS:
75.10.Jm, 05.30.Pr
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