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Crystalline equivalent boundary-bulk correspondence of two-dimensional topological phases

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-12-30 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The boundary of topological phases of matter can manifest its topology nature, which leads to the so-called boundary-bulk correspondence (BBC) of topological phases. In this Letter, we construct a one-to-one correspondence between the boundary theories of fermionic SPT (fSPT) phases protected by crystalline symmetry and on-site symmetry in 2D fermionic systems, which follow the so-called crystalline equivalence principle. We dub such correspondence crystalline equivalent BBC. We illustrate this correspondence by two simple examples and as an application, we discover the topological boundary theory of 2D fSPT phase with spin-1/2 fermions, protected by a non-Abelian group Z4Z2T\mathbb{Z}_4\rtimes\mathbb{Z}_2^T with A4=T2=PfA^4=\mathcal{T}^2=P_f where AA is the generator of Z4\mathbb{Z}_4, from its crystalline equivalent partner -- 2D higher-order fSPT phase with spinless fermions, protected by D4D_4 symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2112.14567,
  title  = {Crystalline equivalent boundary-bulk correspondence of two-dimensional topological phases},
  author = {Jian-Hao Zhang and Shang-Qiang Ning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14567},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4+epsilon pages, 3 figures, with supplementary materials. Comments are welcome