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A Classification of (2+1)D Topological Phases with Symmetries

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-01-08 v1

Abstract

This thesis aims at concluding the classification results for topological phases with symmetry in 2+1 dimensions. The main result is that topological phases are classified by a triple of unitary braided fusion categories ECM\mathcal E\subset\mathcal C\subset\mathcal M plus the chiral central charge cc. Here E\mathcal E is a symmetric fusion category, E=Rep(G)\mathcal E=\mathrm{Rep}(G) for boson systems or E=sRep(Gf)\mathcal E=\mathrm{sRep}(G^f) for fermion systems, consisting of the representations of the symmetry group and describing the local excitations with symmetry; C\mathcal C is the category of all the quasiparticle excitations in the bulk, containing E\mathcal E as its M\"uger center; M\mathcal M is a minimal modular extension of C\mathcal C, that also includes the gauged symmetry defects. We also study the stacking of topological phases with symmetry and two types of anyon condensations based on such classification.

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@article{arxiv.1801.01210,
  title  = {A Classification of (2+1)D Topological Phases with Symmetries},
  author = {Tian Lan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.01210},
  year   = {2018}
}

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PhD thesis