Boundary supersymmetry of 1+1 d fermionic SPT phases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2021-06-16 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We prove that the boundaries of all non-trivial 1+1 dimensional intrinsically fermionic symmetry-protected-topological phases, protected by finite on-site symmetries (unitary or anti-unitary), are supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems. This supersymmetry does not require any fine-tuning of the underlying Hamiltonian, arises entirely as a consequence of the boundary 't Hooft anomaly that classifies the phase and is related to a `Bose-Fermi' degeneracy different in nature from other well known degeneracies such as Kramers doublets.
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@article{arxiv.2011.12320,
title = {Boundary supersymmetry of 1+1 d fermionic SPT phases},
author = {Abhishodh Prakash and Juven Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12320},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes, close to published version