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Symmetry and topology are essential principles in topological physics. Recently, the idea of sub-symmetry-protected topology -- where some of the original symmetries are broken while a remaining subset, called sub-symmetries, continues to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Myungjun Kang , Wonjun Sung , Sonu Verma , Sangmo Cheon

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 generalize the hidden symmetry-breaking picture of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order developed by Kennedy and Tasaki in the context of the Haldane phase. Our generalization applies to a wide class of SPT phases in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-19 Dominic V. Else , Stephen D. Bartlett , Andrew C. Doherty

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are one of the simplest, yet nontrivial, gapped systems that go beyond the Landau paradigm. In this work, we study an extension of the notion of SPT for gapless systems, namely, gapless symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-17 Linhao Li , Masaki Oshikawa , Yunqin Zheng

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

We investigate the physics of one-dimensional symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases protected by symmetries whose symmetry generators exhibit spatial modulation. We focus in particular on phases protected by symmetries with linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-20 Jung Hoon Han , Ethan Lake , Ho Tat Lam , Ruben Verresen , Yizhi You

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states are short-range entangled states with a symmetry G. They belong to a new class of quantum states of matter which are classified by the group cohomology $H^{d+1}(G,\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})$ in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-02 Ling-Yan Hung , Xiao-Gang Wen

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with gapless edge excitations have been shown to exist in principle in strongly interacting bosonic/fermionic systems and it is highly desirable to find practical systems to realize such phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-27 Ching-Yu Huang , Xie Chen , Feng-Li Lin

We study the classification of interacting fermionic and bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) states. We define a SPT state as whether or not it is separated from the trivial state through a bulk phase transition, which is a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped phases of matter that cannot be deformed to a trivial phase without breaking the symmetry or closing the bulk gap. Here, we introduce a new notion of a topological obstruction that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Eslam Khalaf , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Taylor L. Hughes , Raquel Queiroz

We introduce exactly solvable gapless quantum systems in $d$ dimensions that support symmetry protected topological (SPT) edge modes. Our construction leads to long-range entangled, critical points or phases that can be interpreted as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-08 Thomas Scaffidi , Daniel E. Parker , Romain Vasseur

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

Symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) characterized by short-range entanglement include many states essential to understanding of topological condensed matter physics, and the extension to gapless SPTs provides essential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 R. Flores-Calderón , Elio J. König , Ashley M. Cook

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped short-range-entangled quantum phases with a symmetry $G$, which can all be smoothly connected to the trivial product states if we break the symmetry. It has been shown that a large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-25 Zheng-Cheng Gu , Xiao-Gang Wen

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases of matter have been the focus of many recent theoretical investigations, but controlled mechanisms for engineering them have so far been elusive. In this work, we demonstrate that by driving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-07 Thomas Iadecola , Luiz H. Santos , Claudio Chamon

We present a unified perspective on symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in one dimension and address the open question of what characterizes their phase transitions. In the first part of this work we use symmetry as a guide to map…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Ruben Verresen , Roderich Moessner , Frank Pollmann

A large number of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases have been hypothesized for strongly interacting spin-1/2 systems in one dimension. Realizing these SPT phases, however, often demands fine-tunings hard to reach experimentally.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-21 Haiyuan Zou , Erhai Zhao , Xi-Wen Guan , W. Vincent Liu

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with unusual edge excitations can emerge in strongly interacting bosonic systems and are classified in terms of the cohomology of their symmetry groups. Here we provide a physical picture that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-31 Xie Chen , Yuan-Ming Lu , Ashvin Vishwanath

Twisting symmetries provides an efficient method to diagnose symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. In this paper, edge theories of (2+1)-dimensional topological phases protected by reflection as well as other symmetries are studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Gil Young Cho , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Takahiro Morimoto , Shinsei Ryu

We define and classify symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in mixed states based on the tensor network formulation of the density matrix. In one dimension, we introduce strong injective matrix product density operators (MPDO), which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-17 Hanyu Xue , Jong Yeon Lee , Yimu Bao