Bosonic symmetry protected topological phases with reflection symmetry
Abstract
We study two-dimensional bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases which are protected by reflection symmetry and local symmetry [, , U(1), or U(1)], in the search for two-dimensional bosonic analogs of topological crystalline insulators in integer- spin systems with reflection and spin-rotation symmetries. To classify them, we employ a Chern-Simons approach and examine the stability of edge states against perturbations that preserve the assumed symmetries. We find that SPT phases protected by symmetry are classified as for even and 0 (no SPT phase) for odd while those protected by U(1) symmetry are . We point out that the two-dimensional Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki state of spins on the square lattice is a SPT phase protected by reflection and -rotation symmetries.
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@article{arxiv.1509.04395,
title = {Bosonic symmetry protected topological phases with reflection symmetry},
author = {Tsuneya Yoshida and Takahiro Morimoto and Akira Furusaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04395},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11+epsilon pages, 2 figures; v3: typos corrected