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In this paper we systematically classify and describe bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in all physical spatial dimensions using semiclassical nonlinear Sigma model (NLSM) field theories. All the SPT phases on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-22 Zhen Bi , Alex Rasmussen , Kevin Slagle , Cenke Xu

We develop a theoretical framework for the classification and construction of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, which are a special class of zero-temperature phases of strongly interacting gapped quantum many-body systems that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-10 Charles Zhaoxi Xiong

A method of using partial symmetries to distinguish two dimensional symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases of on-site, unitary symmetries is proposed. This novel order parameter takes a wavefunction, such as a ground state of a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-10 Alex Turzillo , Naren Manjunath , Jose Garre-Rubio

We propose a diagnostic tool for detecting non-trivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases protected by a symmetry group $G$ in 2+1 dimensions. Our method is based on directly studying the 1+1-dimensional anomalous edge conformal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-13 Bo Han , Apoorv Tiwari , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Shinsei Ryu

Higher symmetries can emerge at low energies in a topologically ordered state with no symmetry, when some topological excitations have very high energy scales while other topological excitations have low energies. The low energy properties…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Lokman Tsui , Xiao-Gang Wen

We systematically investigate the robustness of symmetry protected topological (SPT) order in open quantum systems by studying the evolution of string order parameters and other probes under noisy channels. We find that one-dimensional SPT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Caroline de Groot , Alex Turzillo , Norbert Schuch

We consider symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with crystalline point group symmetry, dubbed point group SPT (pgSPT) phases. We show that such phases can be understood in terms of lower-dimensional topological phases with on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Hao Song , Sheng-Jie Huang , Liang Fu , Michael Hermele

Symmetry is one of the cornerstones of modern physics and has profound implications in different areas. In symmetry-protected topological systems, symmetries are responsible for protecting surface states, which are at the heart of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 E. Slootman , W. Cherifi , L. Eek , R. Arouca , E. J. Bergholtz , M. Bourennane , C. Morais Smith

We reveal the connection between two-dimensional subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) states and two-dimensional topological orders via a self-dual frustrated toric code model. This model, an enrichment of the toric code (TC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-28 Shi Feng

In this paper, we study the geometry of reduced density matrices for states with symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order. We observe ruled surface structures on the boundary of the convex set of low dimension projections of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Ji-Yao Chen , Zhengfeng Ji , Zheng-Xin Liu , Yi Shen , Bei Zeng

We consider topological phases in periodically driven (Floquet) systems exhibiting many-body localization, protected by a symmetry $G$. We argue for a general correspondence between such phases and topological phases of undriven systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-19 Dominic V. Else , Chetan Nayak

Sub-symmetry (SubSy) protected topological states represent a concept that goes beyond the conventional framework of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, demonstrating that topological boundary states can remain robust even when the…

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped short-range-entangled quantum phases with a symmetry G. They can all be smoothly connected to the same trivial product state if we break the symmetry. The Haldane phase of spin-1 chain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-03 Xie Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Zheng-Xin Liu , Xiao-Gang Wen

Recent advancements in generalized symmetries have drawn significant attention to gapped phases of matter exhibiting novel symmetries, such as noninvertible symmetries. By leveraging the duality transformations, the classification and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-16 Weiguang Cao , Masahito Yamazaki , Linhao Li

Since the discovery of phase transitions driven by topological defects, the classification of phases of matter has been significantly extended beyond Ginzburg and Landau's paradigm of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB). In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Reja H. Wilke , Henning Schlömer , Simon M. Linsel , Annabelle Bohrdt , Fabian Grusdt

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) gives a holographic correspondence between systems with a global symmetry and a higher-dimensional topological field theory. In this framework, classification of gapped phases of matter in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-02 Rui Wen , Andrew C. Potter

Recent studies have unveiled new possibilities for discovering intrinsic quantum phases that are unique to open systems, including phases with average symmetry-protected topological (ASPT) order and strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-21 Yuchen Guo , Shuo Yang

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are fundamental quantum many-body states of matter beyond Landau's paradigm. Here, we introduce the concept of quantum restored SPTs (QRSPTs), where the protecting symmetry is spontaneously broken…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-07 Dhruv Tiwari , Steffen Bollmann , Sebastian Paeckel , Elio J. König

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) states have boundary 't Hooft anomalies that obstruct an effective boundary theory realized in its own dimension with UV completion and an on-site $G$-symmetry. In this work, yet we show that a certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-15 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Edward Witten

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) states are short-range entangled states with symmetry. Nontrivial SPT states have symmetry protected gapless edge excitations. In 2-dimension (2D), there are infinite number of nontrivial SPT phases with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-11 Zheng-Xin Liu , Xiao-Gang Wen