Discrete spin structures and commuting projector models for 2d fermionic symmetry protected topological phases
Abstract
We construct exactly solved commuting projector Hamiltonian lattice models for all known 2+1d fermionic symmetry protected topological phases (SPTs) with on-site unitary symmetry group , where is finite and is the fermion parity symmetry. In particular, our models transcend the class of group supercohomology models, which realize some, but not all, fermionic SPTs in 2+1d. A natural ingredient in our construction is a discrete form of the spin structure of the 2d spatial surface on which our model is defined, namely a `Kasteleyn' orientation of a certain graph associated with the lattice. As a special case, our construction yields commuting projector models for all members of the classification of 2d fermionic SPTs with .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.02145,
title = {Discrete spin structures and commuting projector models for 2d fermionic symmetry protected topological phases},
author = {Nicolas Tarantino and Lukasz Fidkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02145},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
13 pages, 12 figures. V2: Corrected typos and added citations