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Anomalies in mirror symmetry enriched topological orders

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-11-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Two-dimensional mirror symmetry enriched topological (SET) orders can be studied using the folding approach: it can be folded along the mirror axis and turned into a bilayer system on which the mirror symmetry acts as a Z2\mathbb Z_2 layer-exchange symmetry. How mirror symmetry enriches the topological order is then encoded at the mirror axis, which is a gapped boundary of the folded bilayer system. Based on anyon-condensation theory, we classify possible Z2\mathbb Z_2-symmetric gapped boundaries of the folded system. In particular, we derive an H2H^2 obstruction function, which corresponds to an H3H^3 obstruction for topological orders enriched by the time-reversal symmetry instead of mirror symmetry. We demonstrate that states with a nontrivial H2H^2 obstruction function can be constructed on the surface of a three-dimensional mirror SET order.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16700,
  title  = {Anomalies in mirror symmetry enriched topological orders},
  author = {Zhaoyang Ding and Yang Qi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16700},
  year   = {2024}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures