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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

We propose that, up to invertible topological orders, 2+1D fermionic topological orders without symmetry and 2+1D fermionic/bosonic topological orders with symmetry $G$ are classified by non-degenerate unitary braided fusion categories…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-14 Tian Lan , Liang Kong , Xiao-Gang Wen

Topological phases which host Majorana fermions can not be identified via local order parameters. We give simple nonlocal order parameters to distinguish quasi-one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductors of spinless fermions, for any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Yasaman Bahri , Ashvin Vishwanath

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 initiate the classification of unitary superconformal defects in unitary superconformal field theories (SCFT) of diverse spacetime dimensions $3\leq d \leq 6$. Our method explores general constraints from the defect superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Nathan B. Agmon , Yifan Wang

We continue the study, initiated in [hep-th:2504.18619], of topological defect lines (TDLs) in the Conway module $V^{f \natural}$ and K3 non-linear sigma models (NLSMs). In the case of $V^{f \natural}$, we fully classify the potential $N=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Roberta Angius , Stefano Giaccari , Sarah M. Harrison , Roberto Volpato

In recent years, fermionic topological phases of quantum matter has attracted a lot of attention. In a pioneer work by Gu, Wang and Wen, the concept of equivalence classes of fermionic local unitary(FLU) transformations was proposed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-28 Jing-Ren Zhou , Qing-Rui Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We study fermionic non-invertible symmetries in (1+1)d, which are generalized global symmetries that mix fermion parity symmetry with other invertible and non-invertible internal symmetries. Such symmetries are described by fermionic fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-18 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Kansei Inamura , Apoorv Tiwari

Scalar-fermion models, such as the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model, admit natural $1d$ defects given by the exponential of a scalar field integrated along a straight line. In $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions the defect coupling is weakly relevant and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Philine van Vliet

Three-dimensional topological insulators can be described by an effective field theory involving two `hydrodynamic' Abelian gauge fields. The action contains a bulk topological BF term and a surface term, called loop model. This describes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-05 Andrea Cappelli , Lorenzo Maffi , Riccardo Villa

We study two aspects of fermionic T-duality: the duality in purely fermionic sigma models exploring the possible obstructions and the extension of the T-duality beyond classical approximation. We consider fermionic sigma models as coset…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 P. A. Grassi , A. Mezzalira

We study general 2D fermionic topological orders enriched by the mirror symmetry with $\mathcal{M}^2=1$. It is known that certain mirror symmetry enriched fermionic topological orders (mirror SETs) are anomalous, in the sense that they…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-15 Bin-Bin Mao , Chenjie Wang

In this work we study particular TQFTs in three dimensions, known as Symmetry Topological Field Theories (or SymTFTs), to identify line defects of two-dimensional CFTs arising from the compactification of 6d $(2,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Jin Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Yi-Nan Wang

Recently, the modular linear differential equation (MLDE) for level-two congruence subgroups $\Gamma_\theta, \Gamma^{0}(2)$ and $\Gamma_0(2)$ of $\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ was developed and used to classify the fermionic rational conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Jin-Beom Bae , Zhihao Duan , Kimyeong Lee , Sungjay Lee , Matthieu Sarkis

Topological semimetals, including Dirac semimetals, Weyl semimetals, and nodal line semimetals, receive enormous research interest due to their intrinsic topological nature and fascinating properties. In present work, with the help of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 P. Zhou , Z. S. Ma , L. Z. Sun

Motivated by the fundamental role that bosonic and fermionic symmetries play in physics, we study (non-invertible) one-form symmetries in $2 + 1$d consisting of topological lines with bosonic and fermionic self-statistics. We refer to these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-05 Mahesh Balasubramanian , Matthew Buican , Rajath Radhakrishnan

We discuss a variety of codimension-one, non-invertible topological defects in general 3+1d QFTs with a discrete one-form global symmetry. These include condensation defects from higher gauging of the one-form symmetries on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Yichul Choi , Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

We study line defects with a cusp in fermionic CFTs arising as fixed points of scalar-fermion theories with Yukawa interactions. These include the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model and some of its generalizations with additional scalar fields, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Simone Giombi , Anurag Pendse

Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) pertinent to some emergent low energy phenomena of condensed matter lattice models in 2+1 and 3+1D are explored. Many of our field theories are highly-interacting without free quadratic analogs.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-04 Pavel Putrov , Juven Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

Quasiparticle excitations in $3+1$ dimensions can be either bosons or fermions. In this work, we introduce the notion of fermionic loop excitations in $3+1$ dimensional topological phases. Specifically, we construct a new many-body lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-02 Lukasz Fidkowski , Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings