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  • Letter

Fusion rules of mobility

Jie-Yu Zhang and Peng Ye*

  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Magnetoelectric Physics and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, and School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  • *Contact author: yepeng5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Phys. Rev. B 114, L171107 – Published 14 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/jrdw-vvct

Abstract

In topological phases of matter, fusion rules dictate how anyonic topological charges combine. However, the transformation of quasiparticle mobility under fusion remains largely unexplored. In this Letter, we reveal that restricted mobility classes obey their own complex multichannel fusion rules. We introduce three exactly solvable models with Z2 topological order enriched by subsystem symmetries to explicitly demonstrate these structures. Within these models, mobility constraints arise from enforcing symmetries supported on specific subsets. When excitations fuse, these rigid geometric constraints interfere spatially. At the macroscopic level, this deterministic geometric interference manifests as multichannel fusion rules. We present three explicit examples: (i) Fibonacci fusion rules, (ii) tensor products of Fibonacci rules, and (iii) lineon period transmutation.

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