nLab Paul Fendley

Paul Fendley is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College Oxford, and also a professor in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford.

His research interests include statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.

• Department of Physics website

• All Souls Website

Selected writings

• Selected papers

On parafermions:

• Paul Fendley, Free parafermions, J. Phys. A 47 (2014) 075001 $[$arXiv:1310.6049, doi:10.1088/1751-8113/47/7/075001$]$

• Paul Fendley, Parafermionic edge zero modes in $\mathbb{Z}_n$-invariant spin chains, J. Stat. Mech. (2012) P11020 $[$doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2012/11/P11020$]$

and in relation to topological phases of matter with topological order:

• Jason Alicea, Paul Fendley, Topological phases with parafermions: theory and blueprints, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 7 (2016) 119-139 $[$doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031115-011336$]$

Recorded talks

• MPPM on-line seminar from 28 April 2020, Title: Statistical Mechanics and Fusion Categories. The talk includes discussion of relation to knot invariants and lattice topological defects.

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