A Classification of (2+1)D Topological Phases with Symmetries
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 plus the chiral central charge . Here is a symmetric fusion category, for boson systems or for fermion systems, consisting of the representations of the symmetry group and describing the local excitations with symmetry; is the category of all the quasiparticle excitations in the bulk, containing as its M\"uger center; is a minimal modular extension of , 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