TY - JOUR AU - Fernández González, Carlos AU - Schuch, Norbert AU - Wolf, Michael M. AU - Cirac, J.I. AU - Pérez García, David PY - 2012 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.26040 SN - 0031-9007 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42540 T2 - Physical Review Letters AB - We study Hamiltonians which have Kitaev's toric code as a ground state, and show how to construct a Hamiltonian which shares the ground space of the toric code, but which has gapless excitations with a continuous spectrum in the thermodynamic limit.... LA - eng PB - American Physical Society KW - Toric code TI - Gapless Hamiltonians for the Toric Code Using the Projected Entangled Pair State Formalism TY - journal article VL - 109 ER -