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Topological semimetals are characterized by their intriguing Fermi surfaces (FSs) such as Weyl and Dirac points, or nodal FS, and their associated surface states. Among them, topological crystalline semimetals, in the presence of strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-09 Jacob S. Gordon , Hae-Young Kee

We study constraints on the space of $d=2$ fermionic CFTs as a function of non-perturbative anomalies exhibited under a fermionic discrete symmetry group $G^f$, focusing our attention also on cases where $G^f$ is non-abelian or presents a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-03 Andrea Grigoletto

We show that topological nodal points can emerge in photonic crystal possessing mirror symmetry. The mechanism of generating topological nodal points is discussed in a two-dimensional photonic square lattice, in which four topological nodal…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-22 Wen-Yu He , C. T. Chan

The heavy fermion paramagnet UTe$_2$ exhibits numerous characteristics of spin-triplet superconductivity. Efforts to understand the microscopic details of this exotic superconductivity have been impeded by uncertainty regarding the…

The fermion doubling theorem plays a pivotal role in Hermitian topological materials. It states, for example, that Weyl points must come in pairs in three-dimensional semimetals. Here, we present an extension of the doubling theorem to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Zhesen Yang , A. P. Schnyder , Jiangping Hu , Ching-Kai Chiu

We present a generalization of free fermionic topological insulators that are composed of topological subsystems of differing dimensionality. We specifically focus on topological subsystems of nonzero co-dimension are embedded within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Thomas I. Tuegel , Victor Chua , Taylor L. Hughes

A familiar anomaly affects SU(2) gauge theory in four dimensions: a theory with an odd number of fermion multiplets in the spin 1/2 representation of the gauge group, and more generally in representations of spin 2r+1/2, is inconsistent. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-09 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Edward Witten

Crystalline symmetry and time-reversal symmetry are commonly present in real superconducting materials. However, the topological classification of systems respecting these symmetries, particularly for interacting fermions, remains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Yi-Ming Liu , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

One of the central ideas regarding anomalies in topological phases of matter is that they imply the existence of higher-dimensional physics, with an anomaly in a D-dimensional theory typically being cancelled by a bulk (D+1)-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Ethan Lake

The recent discovery and realizations of higher-order topological insulators enrich the fundamental studies on topological phases. Here, we report three-dimensional (3D) wave-steering capabilities enabled by topological boundary states at…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Changqing Xu , Zeguo Chen , Guanqing Zhang , Guancong Ma , Ying Wu

Framing anomaly is a key property of $(2+1)d$ chiral topological orders, for it reveals that the chirality is an intrinsic bulk property of the system, rather than a property of the boundary between two systems. Understanding framing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Ze-An Xu , Jing-Yuan Chen

Topological superconductors are exotic phases of matter featuring robust surface states that could be leveraged for topological quantum computation. A useful guiding principle for the search of topological superconductors is to relate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-05 Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po , Haruki Watanabe

We examine the interplay of symmetry and topological order in $2+1$ dimensional fermionic topological phases of matter. We define fermionic topological symmetries acting on the emergent topological effective theory described using braided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-01 David Aasen , Parsa Bonderson , Christina Knapp

Although classification for free-fermion topological superconductors (TSC) is established, systematically understanding the classification of 3D interacting TSCs remains difficult, especially those protected by crystalline symmetries like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-01 Shang-Qiang Ning , Xing-Yu Ren , Qing-Rui Wang , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We demonstrate that, apart from the chiral anomaly, Dirac semimetals possess another quantum anomaly, which we call the mirror anomaly, and which manifests in a singular response of the Dirac semimetal to an applied magnetic field. Namely,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 A. A. Burkov

We study the physics of 3d supersymmetric abelian gauge theories (with small supersymmetry breaking perturbations) at finite density. Using mirror symmetry, which provides a natural generalization of the duality between the XY model and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Anson Hook , Shamit Kachru , Gonzalo Torroba , Huajia Wang

We study the classification of two-dimensional (2D) topological orders enriched by point-group symmetries, by generalizing the folding appraoch which was previously developed for mirror-symmetry-enriched topological orders. We fold the 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhaoyang Ding , Yang Qi

The chiral anomaly is a phenomenon characteristic of Weyl fermions, which has condensed matter realizations in Weyl semimetals. Efforts to observe smoking gun signatures of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals have mostly focused on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-30 Aaron Hui , Yi Zhang , Eun-Ah Kim

In this letter we demonstrate that the fermionic zero modes on a superconducting domain wall can be associated to an one dimensional $N=6$ supersymmetry that contains non-trivial topological charges. In addition, the system also possesses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 V. K. Oikonomou

Strange correlators are useful tools for diagnosing symmetry-protected topological states from their bulk wave functions. We study strange correlators for one-dimensional fermionic symmetry-protected topological states using fixed-point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-05 Yinning Niu , Yang Qi