Conjecture on the Ising symmetry defect data

Let Ising\textbf{Ising} be the Ising fusion category, and consider its Deligne product IsingIsing\textbf{Ising}\boxtimes\textbf{Ising} together with a \mathdsZ2\mathds{Z}_2-crossed extension containing a symmetry defect X1X_1. For aIsinga\in\textbf{Ising}, let RaaX1X1R^{X_1X_1}_{a\boxtimes a} denote the corresponding crossed braiding symbol, let θa\theta_a be the twist of aa, and let [FX1X1X1X1][F^{X_1X_1X_1}_{X_1}] denote the indicated FF-symbol matrix. Ising defect-data conjecture. There exists a set of solutions to the \mathdsZ2\mathds{Z}_2-crossed consistency equations associated to IsingIsing\textbf{Ising}\boxtimes\textbf{Ising} such that

RaaX1X1=θa for aIsingR^{X_1X_1}_{a\boxtimes a}=\theta_a \hspace{5pt} \text{ for } a\in\textbf{Ising}

and

[FX1X1X1X1]=SIsing=12(121202121).[F^{X_1X_1X_1}_{X_1}]=S_{\textbf{Ising}}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}1&\sqrt{2}&1\\ \sqrt{2}&0&-\sqrt{2}\\ 1&-\sqrt{2}&1\end{pmatrix}.

This conjecture specifies algebraic data for the symmetry defect used in a proposed physical protocol for realizing a TT-gate in topological quantum computing. A full solution of the GG-crossed consistency equations is not known, and the stated existence remains open under the assumptions described in the source.

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Colleen Delaney and Zhenghan Wang, “Symmetry defects and their application to topological quantum computing”, arXiv:1811.02143 (2018).

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