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A Holographic Theory for the Phase Transitions Between Fermionic Symmetry-protected Topological States

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-12-12 v1

Abstract

In an earlier work we developed a holographic theory for the phase transition between bosonic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. This paper is a continuation of it. Here we present the holographic theory for fermionic SPT phase transitions. We show that in any dimension d d , the critical states of fermionic SPT phase transitions has an emergent Z2TZ_2^T symmetry and can be realized on the boundary of a d+1 d+1 -dimensional bulk SPT with an extra Z2TZ_2^T symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1904.01544,
  title  = {A Holographic Theory for the Phase Transitions Between Fermionic Symmetry-protected Topological States},
  author = {Lokman Tsui and Yen-Ta Huang and Dung-Hai Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01544},
  year   = {2019}
}

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35 pages, 10 figures