Extend The Levin-Wen Model To Two-dimensional Topological Orders With Gapped Boundary Junctions

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A realistic material may possess defects, which often bring the material new properties that have practical applications.

• The boundary defects of a two-dimensional topologically ordered system are thought of as an alternative way of realizing topological quantum computation.
• To facilitate the study of such boundary defects, in this paper, we construct an exactly solvable Hamiltonian model of topological orders with gapped boundary junctions, where the boundary defects reside, by placing the Levin-Wen model on a disk, whose gapped boundary is separated into multiple segments by junctions.
• We find that the Hamiltonian of a gapped boundary junction is characterized by either a morphism between or a common Frobenius subalgebra of the two Frobenius algebras (in the input fusion category) characetrizing the two boundary segments joint by the junction.