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We study generalized symmetries of quantum field theories in 1+1D generated by topological defect lines with no inverse. This paper follows our companion paper on gapped phases and anomalies associated with these symmetries. In the present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-25 Ryan Thorngren , Yifan Wang

We investigate the most general gauging operations in 2+1 dimensional oriented field theories with finite symmetry groups, which correspond to gapped boundary conditions in 3+1 dimensional Dijkgraaf-Witten theory. The classification is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-05 Mathew Bullimore , Jamie J. Pearson

We use the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) to systematically characterize gapped phases in 2+1 dimensions with categorical symmetries. The SymTFTs that we consider are (3+1)d Dijkgraaf-Witten (DW) theories for finite groups $G$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-10 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman

We propose a general framework to characterize gapped infra-red (IR) phases of theories with non-invertible (or categorical) symmetries. In this paper we focus on (1+1)d gapped phases with fusion category symmetries. The approach that we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We present a general approach for detecting when a fusion category symmetry is anomalous, based on the existence of a special kind of Lagrangian algebra of the corresponding Drinfeld center. The Drinfeld center of a fusion category…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-05 Carolyn Zhang , Clay Córdova

Gapped phases in 2+1 dimensional quantum field theories with fusion 2-categorical symmetries were recently classified and characterized using the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) approach arXiv:2408.05266, arXiv:2502.20440. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-18 Kansei Inamura , Sheng-Jie Huang , Apoorv Tiwari , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study the anomalies of non-invertible symmetries in 1+1D QFTs using gapped boundaries of its SymTFT. We establish the explicit relation between Lagrangian algebras which determine gapped boundaries of the SymTFT, and algebras which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-09 Pavel Putrov , Rajath Radhakrishnan

We investigate the gauging of higher-form finite Abelian symmetries and their sub-groups in quantum spin models in spatial dimensions $d=2$ and 3. Doing so, we naturally uncover gauged models with dual higher-group symmetries and potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-19 Heidar Moradi , Ömer M. Aksoy , Jens H. Bardarson , Apoorv Tiwari

Quantum field theories can exhibit various generalized symmetry structures, among which higher-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetry defects are particularly prominent. In this work, we explore a new general scenario in which these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Adrien Arbalestrier , Riccardo Argurio , Luigi Tizzano

We construct topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) and commuting projector Hamiltonians for any 1+1d gapped phases with non-anomalous fusion category symmetries, i.e. finite symmetries that admit SPT phases. The construction is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Kansei Inamura

The study of gapless phases with categorical (or so-called non-invertible) symmetries is a formidable task, in particular in higher than two space-time dimensions. In this paper we build on previous works arXiv:2408.05266 and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Yuhan Gai , Sheng-Jie Huang , Kansei Inamura , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman

A large class of gapped phases of matter can be described by topological finite group gauge theories. In this paper we show how such gauge theories possess a higher-group global symmetry, which we study in detail. We derive the $d$-group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-03 Maissam Barkeshli , Yu-An Chen , Po-Shen Hsin , Ryohei Kobayashi

Fusion category symmetries are finite symmetries in 1+1 dimensions described by unitary fusion categories. We classify 1+1d time-reversal invariant bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetry by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-27 Kansei Inamura

We sketch a procedure to capture general non-invertible symmetries of a d-dimensional quantum field theory in the data of a higher-category, which captures the local properties of topological defects associated to the symmetries. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

We study one-dimensional disordered systems with average non-invertible symmetries, where quenched disorder may locally break part of the symmetry while preserving it upon disorder averaging. A canonical example is the random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-11 Yabo Li , Meng Cheng , Ruochen Ma

The classification of phases using categorical symmetries has greatly expanded the landscape of gapped and gapless phases. So far, however, these developments have largely been restricted to phases with unitary (higher-)categorical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-03 Rui Wen , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study topological holography for 2+1-D gapped and gapless phases with generalized symmetries using tools from higher linear algebra and higher condensation theory. We focus on bosonic fusion 2-category symmetries, where the Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Rui Wen

We derive a canonical form for 2-group gauge theory in 3+1D which shows they are either equivalent to Dijkgraaf-Witten theory or to the so-called "EF1" topological order of Lan-Wen. According to that classification, recently argued from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Ryan Thorngren

We use the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) to study and classify gapped phases in (2+1)d for a class of categorical symmetries, referred to as being of bosonic type. The SymTFTs for these symmetries are given by twisted and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman , Jingxiang Wu

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao
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