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    Modular matrices from universal wave function overlaps in Gutzwiller-projected parton wave functions

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    We implement the universal wave function overlap (UWFO) method to extract modular SS and TT matrices for topological orders in Gutzwiller-projected parton wave functions (GPWFs). The modular SS and TT matrices generate a projective representation of SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) on the degenerate-ground-state Hilbert space on a torus and may fully characterize the 2+1D topological orders, i.e. the quasi-particle statistics and chiral central charge (up to E8E_8 bosonic quantum Hall states). We used the variational Monte Carlo method to computed the SS and TT matrices of the chiral spin liquid (CSL) constructed by the GPWF on the square lattice, and confirm that the CSL carries the same topological order as the ν=12\nu=\frac{1}{2} bosonic Laughlin state. We find that the non-universal exponents in UWFO can be small and direct numerical computation is able to be applied on relatively large systems. We also discuss the UWFO method for GPWFs on other Bravais lattices in two and three dimensions by using the Monte Carlo method. UWFO may be a powerful method to calculate the topological order in GPWFs.Comment: 5 pages with 3 figure
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