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We develop a theoretical framework for the classification and construction of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, which are a special class of zero-temperature phases of strongly interacting gapped quantum many-body systems that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-10 Charles Zhaoxi Xiong

Three dimensional topological insulator represents a class of novel quantum phases hosting robust gapless boundary excitations, which is protected by global symmetries such as time reversal, charge conservation and spin rotational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

We propose a diagnostic tool for detecting non-trivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases protected by a symmetry group $G$ in 2+1 dimensions. Our method is based on directly studying the 1+1-dimensional anomalous edge conformal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-13 Bo Han , Apoorv Tiwari , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Shinsei Ryu

We introduce a systematic method for constructing gapped domain walls of topologically ordered systems by gauging a lower-dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order. Based on our construction, we propose a correspondence between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Yabo Li , Zijian Song , Aleksander Kubica , Isaac H. Kim

Measurement-only quantum circuits offer a versatile platform for realizing intriguing quantum phases of matter. However, gapless symmetry-protected topological (gSPT) states remain insufficiently explored in these settings. In this Letter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Xue-Jia Yu , Sheng Yang , Shuo Liu , Hai-Qing Lin , Shao-Kai Jian

We explore the states of matter arising from the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ non-onsite symmetries. In one spatial dimension, we construct a frustration-free lattice model exhibiting SSB of a non-onsite symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhehao Zhang , Yabo Li , Tsung-Cheng Lu

The search for new realization of topologically protected edge states is an active area of research. We show that a tilt boundary in gated multi-layer graphene supports topologically protected gapless kink states, associated with quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Abolhassan Vaezi , Yufeng Liang , Darryl H. Ngai , Li Yang , Eun-Ah Kim

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

Manifolds with nontrivial topology play an essential role in the study of topological phases of matter. In this paper, we study the nontrivial symmetry response of the $2+1$D $Z_2$ symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase when the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-18 Vibhu Ravindran , Bowen Yang , Xie Chen

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 propose a framework that extends the notion of symmetry-protected topological properties beyond the ground-state paradigm to dynamically isolated subspaces formed by exceptional non-thermal energy eigenstates of non-integrable systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Chihiro Matsui , Thomas Quella , Naoto Tsuji

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

We explore nonequilibrium topological responses of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states in open quantum systems subject to decoherence. For SPT wavefunctions protected by a product symmetry G $\times$ S , where G defects are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Shuangyuan Lu , Lucas Q Silveira , Yizhi You

According to the classification using projective representations of the SO(3) group, there exist two topologically distinct gapped phases in spin-1 chains. The symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase possesses half-integer projective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-09 Wei Li , Andreas Weichselbaum , Jan von Delft

We investigate (1+1)d symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetries. We emphasize that the UV description of an anomaly-free fusion category symmetry must include the fiber functor, giving rise to a local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Chenqi Meng , Xinping Yang , Tian Lan , Zhengcheng Gu

Quantum phases with different orders exist with or without breaking the symmetry of the system. Recently, a classification of gapped quantum phases which do not break time reversal, parity or on-site unitary symmetry has been given for 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Xie Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Xiao-Gang Wen

The program of classifying symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in 1D has been recently completed and has opened the doors to study closely the properties of systems belonging to these phases. It was recently found that being able to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Abhishodh Prakash , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Frustrated spin-$1/2$ XXZ zigzag chains relevant to Rb$_2$Cu$_2$Mo$_3$O$_{12}$ are revisited in the light of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. Using a density-matrix renormalization group method for infinite systems, we identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroshi Ueda , Shigeki Onoda

The discovery of critical points that can host quantized nonlocal order parameters and degenerate edge modes relocate the study of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) to gapless regions. In this letter, we reveal gapless SPTs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Longwen Zhou

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) states are short-range entangled states with symmetry, which have symmetry protected gapless edge states around a gapped bulk. Recently, we proposed a systematic construction of SPT phases in interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-17 Xie Chen , Xiao-Gang Wen