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A class of left bialgebroids whose underlying algebra A ♯ H is a smash product of a bialgebra H with a braided commutative Yetter–Drinfeld H -algebra A has recently been studied in relation to models of field theories on noncommutative spaces. In Borowiec and Pachoł (2017 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50 055205) a proof has been presented that the bialgebroid A F ♯ H F where HF and AF are the twists of H and A by a Drinfeld 2-cocycle F = ∑ F 1 ⊗ F 2 is isomorphic to the twist of bialgebroid A ♯ H by the bialgebroid 2-cocycle ∑ 1 ♯ F 1 ⊗ 1 ♯ F 2 induced by F. They assume H is quasitriangular, which is reasonable for many physical applications. However the proof and the entire paper take for granted that the coaction and the prebraiding are both given by special formulas involving the R-matrix. There are counterexamples of Yetter–Drinfeld modules over quasitriangular Hopf algebras which are not of this special form. Nevertheless, the main result essentially survives. We present a proof with a general coaction and the correct prebraiding, and even without the assumption of quasitriangularity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We apply quantum group methods to quantum computing, starting with the notion of interacting Frobenius Hopf algebras for ZX calculus with noncommutative algebra and noncocommutative coalgebra. We introduce the notion of *-structures in ZX calculus at this algebraic level and construct examples based on the quantum group u q (sl 2) at a root of unity. We provide an abstract formulation of the Hadamard gate related to Hopf algebra self-duality. We then solve the problem of extending the notion of interacting Hopf algebras and ZX calculus to take place in a braided tensor category. In the ribbon case, the Hadamard gate coming from braided self-duality obeys a modular identity. We give the example of b q (sl 2), the self-dual braided version of u q (sl 2). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kitaev’s quantum double model is a family of exactly solvable lattice models that realize two dimensional topological phases of matter. The model was originally based on finite groups, and was later generalized to semi-simple Hopf algebras. We rigorously define and study ribbon operators in the generalized quantum double model. These ribbon operators are important tools to understand quasi-particle excitations. It turns out that there are some subtleties in defining the operators in contrast to what one would naively think of. In particular, one has to distinguish two classes of ribbons which we call locally clockwise and locally counterclockwise ribbons. Moreover, we point out that the issue already exists in the original model based on finite non-abelian groups, but it seems to not have been noticed in the literature. We show how certain common properties would fail even in the original model if we were not to distinguish these two classes of ribbons. Perhaps not surprisingly, under the new definitions ribbon operators satisfy all properties that are expected. For instance, they create quasi-particle excitations only at the end of the ribbon, and the types of the quasi-particles correspond to irreducible representations of the Drinfeld double of the input Hopf algebra. However, the proofs of these properties are much more complicated than those in the case of finite groups. This is partly due to the complications in dealing with general Hopf algebras rather than group algebras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]