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Global symmetries greatly enrich the landscape of topological quantum phases, playing an essential role from topological insulators to fractional quantum Hall effect. Topological phases in mixed quantum states, originating from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Ruochen Ma , Jian-Hao Zhang , Zhen Bi , Meng Cheng , Chong Wang

We describe recent progress in our understanding of the interplay between interactions, symmetry, and topology in states of quantum matter. We focus on a minimal generalization of the celebrated topological band insulators to interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 T. Senthil

Topological phases have been extensively studied over the past two decades, primarily in quantum pure states, where they are protected by exact symmetries. Recently, numerous studies have theoretically demonstrated the existence of average…

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

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

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

We investigate a novel class of topological superconducting phases protected by exact fermion-parity symmetry and average crystalline symmetries. These phases belong to the broader class of average crystalline symmetry-protected topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Sarvesh Srinivasan , Jian-Hao Zhang , Yang Qi , Zhen Bi

Symmetry Protected Topological (SPT) phases describe trivially-acting symmetries. We argue that a symmetry-based description of SPT phases ought to include the topological twist fields associated to the symmetry. Doing so allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Thomas Vandermeulen

We consider quantum many body systems with generalized symmetries, such as the higher form symmetries introduced recently, and the "tensor symmetry". We consider a general form of lattice Hamiltonians which allow a certain level of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

The interplay of symmetry and topology in quantum many-body mixed states has recently garnered significant interest. In a phenomenon not seen in pure states, mixed states can exhibit average symmetries -- symmetries that act on component…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ruochen Ma , Alex Turzillo

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) 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) states have boundary 't Hooft anomalies that obstruct an effective boundary theory realized in its own dimension with UV completion and an on-site $G$-symmetry. In this work, yet we show that a certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-15 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Edward Witten

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are short-range entangled phases of matter with a non-local order parameter which are preserved under a local symmetry group. Here, by using unsupervised learning algorithm, namely the diffusion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-18 En-Jui Kuo , Hossein Dehghani

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

A hallmark of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) are topologically protected boundary states, which are immune to perturbations that respect the protecting symmetry. It is commonly believed that any perturbation that destroys an…

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 trivial (SPt) phases of matter are the product-state analogue of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. This means, SPt phases can be adiabatically connected to a product state by some path that preserves the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-08 Augustine Kshetrimayum , Hong-Hao Tu , Roman Orus

We generalize the topological response theory to detect the boundary anomalies of linear subsystem symmetries. This approach allows us to distinguish different subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) phases and uncover new ones. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Ke Ding , Hao-Ran Zhang , Bai-Ting Liu , Shuo Yang

We present simple lattice realizations of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with $q$-form global symmetries where charged excitations have $q$ spatial dimensions. Specifically, we construct $d$ space-dimensional models supported…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Beni Yoshida
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