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Hi there! Can anybody tell me, if generically any system, which is solely described by a topological field theory, resides in a topological phase? I can't find any clear notion of topological phase. Only topological phase of matter, but I mean any kind of system. Thanks for your help.

thanks! i still would be happy if you could give me a reference. i know about knot theory and all that a fair bit to hopefully grasp it :)

do you also have a brief intro to colored braid groups? i guess this is what I am looking for...

nice, thank you very much for your reply! i am curiously waiting for more :D

thank you element4! i will read more about that now. for now, is that what you have written related to that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_particles#The_homotopy_class ?? Especially, the part "Now how about R2?..." Thanks again for the replies!

thanks for the replies! @dickfore: sure. if they are different due to their intrisic properties or if they are localizable e.g. if they are fixed. @element4: what are nonabelian anyons? and what are nontrivial statistics for distinguishable particles in 2 dimensions. do you have any reference...

Hey! I have started reading about anyons in a book called fractional statistics and quantum theory. In this book and also on the wiki article I have found that anyons are supposedly indistinguishable particles. However, I went on searching and found info on distinguishable anyons e.g. . I am...

Thanks Demystifier, but in which precise aspects are they different and in which similar? Is there a clear analysis somewhere available?

Hello everybody, I am currently studying QFT on curved spacetime and I got puzzled about the question: Are Unruh and Hawking effect just the same by invoking the equivalence principle? I found ambiguous statements and this paper contributed to it. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.5564v2.pdf...