Effect of Landau Level Mixing on Braiding Statistics

21 March 2008

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We examine the effect of Landau level mixing on the braiding statistics of quasiparticles of abelian and nonabelian quantum Hall states. 

While path dependent geometric phases can perturb (or even destroy) the abelian part of the statistics, we find that the nonabelian properties remain unchanged to an accuracy that is exponentially small in the distance between quasiparticles.