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Selected writings

On the bulk-edge correspondence for quantum Hall systems via abelian Chern-Simons theory:

• Jennifer Cano, Meng Cheng, Michael Mulligan, Chetan Nayak, Eugeniu Plamadeala, Jon Yard: Bulk-Edge Correspondence in $2+1$-Dimensional Abelian Topological Phases, Phys. Rev. B 89 (2014) 115116 [arXiv:1310.5708, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.115116]

Introducing Majorana dimers for Ising anyons:

• Brayden Ware, Jun Ho Son, Meng Cheng, Ryan V. Mishmash, Jason Alicea, and Bela Bauer, Ising anyons in frustration-free Majorana-dimer models, Phys. Rev. B 94 115127 (2016) [arXiv:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.115127]

On the adiabaticity of topological quantum computation by braiding of defect anyons:

• Meng Cheng, Victor Galitski, Sankar Das Sarma, Non-adiabatic Effects in the Braiding of Non-Abelian Anyons in Topological Superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 84 (2011) 104529 $[$arXiv:1106.2549, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.104529$]$

On Levin-Wen models:

• Liang Chang, Meng Cheng, Shawn X. Cui, Yuting Hu, Wei Jin, Ramis Movassagh, Pieter Naaijkens, Zhenghan Wang, Amanda Young: On Enriching the Levin-Wen model with Symmetry, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48 (2016) 12FT01 [arXiv:1412.6589]

On symmetry protected topological phases and their topological orders:

• Maissam Barkeshli, Parsa Bonderson, Meng Cheng, Zhenghan Wang, Symmetry Fractionalization, Defects, and Gauging of Topological Phases, Phys. Rev. B 100 115147 (2019) $[$arXiv:1410.4540, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.115147]

A lattice model for anyonic membrane braiding in 4D:

• Yitao Feng, Hanyu Xue, Yuyang Li, Meng Cheng, Ryohei Kobayashi, Po-Shen Hsin, Yu-An Chen: Anyonic membranes and Pontryagin statistics [arXiv:2509.14314]

On anyons and abelian Chern-Simons theory:

• Meng Cheng, Nathan Seiberg: Peeling off Abelian Anyons and Proliferation Transitions [arXiv:2610.04704]

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