Ising anyons in the $SU(2)_2$ Chern--Simons theory

Abstract

The present work is motivated by the statement that the Ising minimal model $\mathcal{M}(4,3)$ is equivalent, at the level of observables, to the $SU(2)_2$ Chern--Simons theory. At first glance, however, these two theories appear to differ substantially. For instance, the number of irreducible highest-weight representations does not match the number of Ising anyons. For tensor products of low degree, these discrepancies are examined in this work. While representation structure differs, it does not affect the observables underlying topological quantum computation algorithms.