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Decades of research have revealed a deep understanding of topological quantum matter with protected edge modes. We report that even richer physics emerges when tuning between two topological phases of matter whose respective edge modes are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-05 Saranesh Prembabu , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen

Measurement-only quantum circuits offer a versatile platform for realizing intriguing quantum phases of matter. However, gapless symmetry-protected topological (gSPT) states remain insufficiently explored in these settings. In this Letter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Xue-Jia Yu , Sheng Yang , Shuo Liu , Hai-Qing Lin , Shao-Kai Jian

We consider the classification problem of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases on quantum spin systems. SPT phases are gapped short-range-entangled quantum phases with a symmetry $G$. We explain that in one and two-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Yoshiko Ogata

Gapless quantum phases can become distinct when internal symmetries are enforced, in analogy with gapped symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. However, this distinction does not always lead to protected edge modes, raising the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-30 Saranesh Prembabu , Shu-Heng Shao , Ruben Verresen

We discuss (1+1)d gapless phases with non-invertible global symmetries, also referred to as categorical symmetries. This includes gapless phases showing properties analogous to gapped symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Alison Warman

Topology forms a cornerstone in modern condensed matter and statistical physics, offering a new framework to classify the phases and phase transitions beyond the traditional Landau paradigm. However, it is widely believed that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-05 Xue-Jia Yu , Limei Xu , Hai-Qing Lin

We discuss physical constructions, and the boundary properties of various symmetry protected topological phases that involve 1-form symmetries, from one spatial dimension (1d) to four spatial dimensions (4d). For example, the prototype 3d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Chao-Ming Jian , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Yichen Xu , Cenke Xu

In this work, we introduce a new type of topological order which is protected by subsystem symmetries which act on lower dimensional subsets of lattice many-body system, e.g. along lines or planes in a three dimensional system. The symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-18 Yizhi You , Trithep Devakul , F. J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

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

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

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in free fermion and interacting bosonic systems have been classified, but the physical phenomena of interacting fermionic SPT phases have not been fully explored. Here, employing large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-21 Han-Qing Wu , Yuan-Yao He , Yi-Zhuang You , Tsuneya Yoshida , Norio Kawakami , Cenke Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

We show that topology can protect exponentially localized, zero energy edge modes at critical points between one-dimensional symmetry protected topological phases. This is possible even without gapped degrees of freedom in the bulk ---in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Ruben Verresen , Nick G. Jones , Frank Pollmann

We introduce a class of intrinsic symmetry-protected topological mixed-state(mSPT) in open quantum systems that feature modulated symmetries, such as dipole and subsystem symmetries. Intriguingly, these mSPT phases cannot be realized as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Yizhi You , Masaki Oshikawa

In symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, the combination of symmetries and a bulk gap stabilizes protected modes at surfaces or at topological defects. Understanding the fate of these modes at a quantum critical point, when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-06 Shang Liu , Hassan Shapourian , Ashvin Vishwanath , Max A. Metlitski

The vast majority of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states are difficult to detect, which often leads to their misidentification as ordinary or topologically trivial phases. In this work, we propose a general framework for detecting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Zhe Wang , Longye Lu , Shang-Qiang Ning , Zenan Liu , Yan-Cheng Wang , Zheng Yan , Wenan Guo

The boundary of symmetry-protected topological states (SPTs) can harbor new quantum anomaly phenomena. In this work, we characterize the bosonic anomalies introduced by the 1+1D non-onsite-symmetric gapless edge modes of 2+1D bulk bosonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-13 Juven Wang , Luiz H. Santos , Xiao-Gang Wen

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are short-range entangled quantum states characterized by anomalous edge behavior, a manifestation of the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological phases. Moreover, the Li-Haldane conjecture…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-17 Chao Xu , Yunlong Zang , Yixin Ma , Yingfei Gu , Shenghan Jiang

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

We discuss a strategy to construct gapped boundaries for a large class of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPT phases) beyond group cohomology. This is done by a generalization of the symmetry extension method previously used for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-22 Ryohei Kobayashi , Kantaro Ohmori , Yuji Tachikawa