Ground-state degeneracy for abelian anyons in the presence of gapped boundaries

Understand

Gapped phases with long-range entanglement may admit gapped boundaries.

• If the boundary is gapped, the ground-state degeneracy is well-defined and can be computed using methods of Topological Quantum Field Theory.
• We derive a general formula for the ground-state degeneracy for abelian Fractional Quantum Hall phases, including the cases when connected components of the boundary are subdivided into an arbitrary number of segments, with a different boundary condition on each segment, and in the presence of an arbitrary number of boundary domain walls.