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Classification and surface anomaly of glide symmetry protected topological phases in three dimensions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-07-27 v2

Abstract

We study glide protected topological (GSPT) phases of interacting bosons and fermions in three spatial dimensions certain on-site symmetries. They are crystalline SPT phases, which are distinguished from a trivial product state only in the presence of non-symmorphic glide symmetry. We classify these GSPT phases with various on-site symmetries such as U(1)U(1) and time reversal, and show that they can all be understood by stacking and coupling two-dimensional short-range-entangled phases in a glide-invariant way. Using such a coupled layer construction we study the anomalous surface topological orders of these GSPT phases, which gap out the two-dimensional surface states without breaking any symmetries. This framework is demonstrated in many examples, including the non-symmorphic topological insulator with "hourglass fermion" surface states.

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@article{arxiv.1701.00784,
  title  = {Classification and surface anomaly of glide symmetry protected topological phases in three dimensions},
  author = {Fuyan Lu and Bowen Shi and Yuan-Ming Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00784},
  year   = {2017}
}

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22 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, references updated