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We propose that the symmetry-breaking bifurcation of coupled topological edge states (CTESs) can be used as a general principle for achieving spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in a nonlinear topological lattice. Using an optical resonator…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-02 Rujiang Li , Letian Xu , Muhammad Imran , Wencai Wang , Yongtao Jia , Ying Liu

A self-correcting quantum memory can store and protect quantum information for a time that increases without bound with the system size and without the need for active error correction. We demonstrate that symmetry can lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Sam Roberts , Stephen D. Bartlett

The Kennedy-Tasaki (KT) transformation was used to construct the gapped symmetry protected topological (SPT) phase from the symmetry breaking phase with open boundary condition, and was generalized in our proceeding work [L. Li et al.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-14 Linhao Li , Masaki Oshikawa , Yunqin Zheng

Topology is a fundamental aspect of quantum physics, and it has led to key breakthroughs and results in various fields of quantum materials. In condensed matters, this has culminated in the recent discovery of symmetry-protected topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Baokai Wang , Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Tzen Ong , Hsin Lin

We investigate the existence of symmetry-protected topological phases in one-dimensional alkaline-earth cold fermionic atoms with general half-integer nuclear spin I at half filling. In this respect, some orbital degrees of freedom are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-20 H. Nonne , M. Moliner , S. Capponi , P. Lecheminant , K. Totsuka

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT), or topological holography, offers a unifying framework for describing quantum phases of matter and phase transitions between them. While this approach has seen remarkable success in describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Marvin Qi , Ramanjit Sohal , Xie Chen , David T. Stephen , Abhinav Prem

The interplay of symmetry, topology, and many-body effects in the classification of possible phases of matter poses a formidable challenge that is attracting great attention in condensed-matter physics. Such many-body effects are typically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-09 G. Magnifico , D. Vodola , E. Ercolessi , S. P. Kumar , M. Müller , A. Bermudez

We study bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with $C_{2}$ rotational symmetry in four spatial dimensions which is not captured by the group cohomology classification. By using the topological crystal approach, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Sheng-Jie Huang

Quantum states picked from non-trivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases have computational power in measurement based quantum computation. This power is uniform across SPT phases, and is unlocked by measurements that break the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Arnab Adhikary , Wang Yang , Robert Raussendorf

Gapped interfaces (and boundaries) of two-dimensional (2D) Abelian topological phases are shown to support a remarkably rich sequence of 1D symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. We show that such interfaces can provide a physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-24 Luiz H. Santos , Jennifer Cano , Michael Mulligan , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological insulators exhibit boundary states protected by bulk band topology, a principle first established in quantum systems and later extended to classical waves, including phononics. Conventionally, an $n$-dimensional bulk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Joel R. Pyfrom , Kai Sun , Jihong A. Ma

We study symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase transitions induced by stacking two gapped one-dimensional subsystems in BDI symmetry class. The topological invariant of the entire system is a sum of three topological invariants: two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Sang-Jun Choi , Björn Trauzettel

In this manuscript we analyze the emergence of protected multiphoton states in scattering problems with cylindrical symmetry. In order to do that, we first provide a formal definition of the concept of postselected symmetry-protection. We…

We demonstrate the existence of topologically nontrivial phase in a one-dimensional fermionic lattice system subjected to synthetic gauge fields, which is beyond the standard Altland-Zirnbauer classification of topological insulators. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-18 Linhu Li , Shu Chen

We ask whether a local Hamiltonian with a featureless (fully gapped and nondegenerate) ground state could exist in certain quantum spin systems. We address this question by mapping the vicinity of certain quantum critical point (or gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Chao-Ming Jian , Zhen Bi , Cenke Xu

Symmetry-protected topological phases (SPT) are short-range entangled gapped states protected by global symmetry. Nontrivial SPT phases cannot be adiabatically connected to the trivial disordered state(or atomic insulator) as long as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-02 Peng Ye , Zheng-Cheng Gu

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

It is demonstrated that fermionic/bosonic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases across different dimensions and symmetry classes can be organized using geometric constructions that increase dimensions and symmetry-forgetting maps that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-28 Charles Zhaoxi Xiong , A. Alexandradinata

Decoherence in realistic quantum platforms motivates a mixed-state notion of topological phases of matter, including average symmetry-protected topological (ASPT) phases. Alongside this progress, generalized symmetries--notably…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Linhao Li , Zhen Bi , Weiguang Cao

The dual role played by symmetry in many-body physics manifests itself through two fundamental mechanisms: spontaneous symmetry breaking and topological symmetry protection. These two concepts, ubiquitous in both condensed matter and high…