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Domain walls from SPT-sewing

Quantum Physics 2024-11-20 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We introduce a systematic method for constructing gapped domain walls of topologically ordered systems by gauging a lower-dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order. Based on our construction, we propose a correspondence between 1d SPT phases with a non-invertible G×Rep(G)×GG\times \text{Rep}(G)\times G symmetry and invertible domain walls in the quantum double associated with the group GG. We prove this correspondence when GG is Abelian and provide evidence for the general case by studying the quantum double model for G=S3G=S_3. We also use our method to construct \emph{anchoring domain walls}, which are novel exotic domain walls in the 3d toric code that transform point-like excitations to semi-loop-like excitations anchored on these domain walls.

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@article{arxiv.2411.11967,
  title  = {Domain walls from SPT-sewing},
  author = {Yabo Li and Zijian Song and Aleksander Kubica and Isaac H. Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11967},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23+35 pages, 11+1 figures

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