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We show that very simple theories of abelian gauge fields with a cubic Chern-Simons term in 5d have an infinite number of non-invertible co-dimension two defects. They arise by dressing the symmetry operators of the broken electric 1-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Riccardo Argurio , Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas

(3+1)D topological phases of matter can host a broad class of non-trivial topological defects of codimension-1, 2, and 3, of which the well-known point charges and flux loops are special cases. The complete algebraic structure of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-12 Maissam Barkeshli , Yu-An Chen , Sheng-Jie Huang , Ryohei Kobayashi , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Guanyu Zhu

We describe the interplay between electric-magnetic duality and higher symmetry in Maxwell theory. When the fine-structure constant is rational, the theory admits non-invertible symmetries which can be realized as composites of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-01 Clay Cordova , Kantaro Ohmori

We discuss the exact non-invertible Kramers-Wannier symmetry of 1+1d lattice models on a tensor product Hilbert space of qubits. This symmetry is associated with a topological defect and a conserved operator, and the latter can be presented…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Nathan Seiberg , Sahand Seifnashri , Shu-Heng Shao

We study the relation between the quantum integrable systems derived from the dimer graphs and five dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^4$. We construct integrable systems based on new dimer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Norton Lee

We consider (4+1)-dimensional topologically massive tensor gauge theory. This theory is an analog of the (2+1)-dimensional topologically massive Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory. If the space has a boundary, we find that a (3+1)-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Satoshi Yamaguchi

It is well-known that gauging a finite 0-form symmetry in a quantum field theory leads to a dual symmetry generated by topological Wilson line defects. These are described by the representations of the 0-form symmetry group which form a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Jingxiang Wu

We propose and analyze a deformation of the 3+1d lattice $\mathbb Z_2$ gauge theory that preserves the non-invertible Wegner duality symmetry at the self-dual point. We identify a frustration-free point along this deformation where there…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Pranay Gorantla , Tzu-Chen Huang

Understanding the map of line defects in a Quantum Field Theory under a given duality is generically a difficult problem. This paper is the second in a series which aims to address this question in the context of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ mirror…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-10 Anindya Dey

Nonlinear sigma models appear in a wide variety of physics contexts, such as the long-range order with spontaneously broken continuous global symmetries. There are also large classes of quantum criticality admit sigma model descriptions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-29 Po-Shen Hsin

We give an explicit operator representation (via a sequential circuit and projection to symmetry subspaces) of Kramers-Wannier duality transformation in higher-dimensional subsystem symmetric models generalizing the construction in the 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-28 Aswin Parayil Mana , Yabo Li , Hiroki Sukeno , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We consider Maxwell theory on a non-spin manifold. Depending on the choice of statistics for line operators, there are three non-anomalous theories and one anomalous theory with different symmetry fractionalizations. We establish the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 Naoto Kan , Kohki Kawabata , Hiroki Wada

Anomalies of global symmetries are important tools for understanding the dynamics of quantum systems. We investigate anomalies of non-invertible symmetries in 3+1d using 4+1d bulk topological quantum field theories given by Abelian two-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-13 Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Carolyn Zhang

By mapping the relativistic version of the Chern-Simons-Landau-Ginzburg theory in 2+1 dimensions to the 3D lattice Villain x-y model coupled with the Chern-Simons gauge field, we investigate phase transitions of Chern-Simons bosons in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-18 Leonid P. Pryadko , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We relate two classical dualities in low-dimensional quantum field theory: Kramers-Wannier duality of the Ising and related lattice models in $2$ dimensions, with electromagnetic duality for finite gauge theories in $3$ dimensions. The…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Daniel S. Freed , Constantin Teleman

Gauging a symmetry can be thought of as the insertion of a spacetime-filling defect. Accordingly, we regard each gaugeable symmetry in a theory as defining a $-1$-form symmetry via condensation. The resulting operators, called gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 Thomas Vandermeulen

Two different massive gauge invariant spin-one theories in $3+1$ dimensions, one Stuckelberg formulation and the other `$B^{\wedge}F$' theory, with Kalb-Ramond field are shown to be related by duality. This is demonstrated by gauging the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Harikumar , M. Sivakumar

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

Non-invertible one-form symmetries are naturally realized in (2+1)d topological quantum field theories. In this work, we consider the potential realization of such symmetries in (2+1)d conformal field theories, investigating whether gapless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-07 Clay Cordova , Diego García-Sepúlveda , Kantaro Ohmori

Symmetries corresponding to local transformations of the fundamental fields that leave the action invariant give rise to (invertible) topological defects, which obey group-like fusion rules. One can construct more general (codimension-one)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Pierluigi Niro , Konstantinos Roumpedakis , Orr Sela