In condensed matter theory it is folklore that species of anyonic topological order correspond to braided unitary fusion categories/modular tensor categories.
The origin of the claim may be:
Early accounts re-stating this claim (without attribution):
Chetan Nayak, Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern, Michael Freedman, Sankar Das Sarma, pp. 28 of: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation, Rev. Mod. Phys. 80 1083 (2008) arXiv:0707.1888, doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.80.1083
Zhenghan Wang, Section 6.3 of: Topological Quantum Computation, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics 112, AMS (2010) ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-4930-9, pdf
Further discussion (all without attribution):
Eric C. Rowell, Zhenghan Wang, Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 183-238 (arXiv:1705.06206, doi:10.1090/bull/1605)
Tian Lan, A Classification of (2+1)D Topological Phases with Symmetries arXiv:1801.01210
From categories to anyons: a travelogue arXiv:1811.06670
Colleen Delaney, A categorical perspective on symmetry, topological order, and quantum information (2019) pdf, uc:5z384290
Colleen Delaney, Lecture notes on modular tensor categories and braid group representations (2019) pdf, pdf
Liang Wang, Zhenghan Wang, In and around Abelian anyon models, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53 505203 (2020) doi:10.1088/1751-8121/abc6c0
Parsa Bonderson, Measuring Topological Order, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033110 (2021) arXiv:2102.05677, doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033110
Zhuan Li, Roger S.K. Mong, Detecting topological order from modular transformations of ground states on the torus arXiv:2203.04329
Eric C. Rowell, Braids, Motions and Topological Quantum Computing arXiv:2208.11762
Willie Aboumrad, Quantum computing with anyons: an F-matrix and braid calculator arXiv:2212.00831
Emphasis that the expected description of anyons by braided fusion categories had remained folklore, together with a list of minimal assumptions that would need to be shown:
Exposition and review:
An argument that the statement at least for SU(2)-anyons does follow from an enhancement of the K-theory classification of topological phases of matter to interacting topological order:
Relation to ZX-calculus:
On detection of topological order by observing modular transformations on the ground state:
See also:
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