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Gauging non-invertible symmetries on the lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-09-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We provide a general prescription for gauging finite non-invertible symmetries in 1+1d lattice Hamiltonian systems. Our primary example is the Rep(D8_8) fusion category generated by the Kennedy-Tasaki transformation, which is the simplest anomaly-free non-invertible symmetry on a spin chain of qubits. We explicitly compute its lattice F-symbols and illustrate our prescription for a particular (non-maximal) gauging of this symmetry. In our gauging procedure, we introduce two qubits around each link, playing the role of "gauge fields" for the non-invertible symmetry, and impose novel Gauss's laws. Similar to the Kramers-Wannier transformation for gauging an ordinary Z2\mathbb{Z}_2, our gauging can be summarized by a gauging map, which is part of a larger, continuous non-invertible cosine symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2503.02925,
  title  = {Gauging non-invertible symmetries on the lattice},
  author = {Sahand Seifnashri and Shu-Heng Shao and Xinping Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.02925},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

66 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; v2: minor changes