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We provide a classification of invertible topological phases of interacting fermions with symmetry in two spatial dimensions for general fermionic symmetry groups $G_f$ and general values of the chiral central charge $c_-$. Here $G_f$ is a…

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A comprehensive symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy (EE) in $(1+1)$-d rational conformal field theories (RCFT) with categorical non-invertible symmetries is presented. This amounts to symmetry resolving the entanglement with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Arpit Das , Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Pablo Saura-Bastida

We determine the $d+1$ dimensional topological field theory, which encodes the higher-form symmetries and their 't Hooft anomalies for $d$-dimensional QFTs obtained by compactifying M-theory on a non-compact space $X$. The resulting theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Fabio Apruzzi , Federico Bonetti , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Saghar S. Hosseini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Generalized symmetries (also known as categorical symmetries) is a newly developing technique for studying quantum field theories. It has given us new insights into the structure of QFT and many new powerful tools that can be applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 T. Daniel Brennan , Sungwoo Hong

Invertible fermionic topological (IFT) phases are gapped phases of matter with nondegenerate ground states on any closed spatial manifold. When open boundary conditions are imposed, nontrivial IFT phases support gapless boundary degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Ömer M. Aksoy , Christopher Mudry

We discuss (1+1)d gapless phases with non-invertible global symmetries, also referred to as categorical symmetries. This includes gapless phases showing properties analogous to gapped symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Alison Warman

Deconfined criticality and gapless topological states have recently attracted growing attention, as both phenomena go beyond the traditional Landau paradigm. However, the deep connection between these two critical states, particularly in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Sheng Yang , Fu Xu , Da-Chuan Lu , Yi-Zhuang You , Hai-Qing Lin , Xue-Jia Yu

We show that the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) construction, also known as the topological holography, provides a natural and intuitive framework for the entropic order parameter characterising phases with (partially) broken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Hua-Chen Zhang , Germán Sierra , Javier Molina-Vilaplana

We studied quantum phase transitions in the antiferromagnetic dimerized spin-1/2 XY chain andvtwo-leg ladders. From analysis of several spin models we present our main result: the framework to deal with topological orders and hidden…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Gennady Y. Chitov , Toplal Pandey

To study gapped phases of $4$d gauge theories, we introduce the temporal gauging of $\mathbb{Z}_N$ $1$-form symmetry in $4$d quantum field theories (QFTs), thereby defining effective $3$d QFTs with $\widetilde{\mathbb{Z}}_N\times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-07 Mendel Nguyen , Yuya Tanizaki , Mithat Ünsal

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

Topological holography is a conjectured correspondence between the symmetry charges and defects of a $D$-dimensional system with the anyons in a $(D+1)$-dimensional topological order: the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-01 Rui Wen , Weicheng Ye , Andrew C. Potter

We explore 1+1 dimensional (1+1D) gapped phases in systems with non-invertible symmetries, focusing on symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases (defined as gapped phases with non-degenerate ground states), as well as SPT orders (defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Ömer M. Aksoy , Xiao-Gang Wen

Based on the recently established parafermionic matrix product states, we study the classification of one-dimensional gapped phases of parafermions with the time reversal (TR) symmetry satisfying $T^{2}=1$. Without extra symmetry, it has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-28 Wen-Tao Xu , Guang-Ming Zhang

We use the 3D SymTFT approach to study the generalized symmetries and partition functions of 2D CFTs in various orbifolded and fermionic phases. These phases can be realized by the sandwich construction in the associated 3D SymTFTs with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Jin Chen , Qiang Jia

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

Freed-Hopkins give a mathematical ansatz for classifying gapped invertible phases of matter with a spatial symmetry in terms of Borel-equivariant generalized homology. We propose a slight generalization of this ansatz to account for cases…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Arun Debray

Recently, it has been proposed that exotic one-dimensional phases can be realized by gapping out the edge states of a fractional topological insulator. The low-energy edge degrees of freedom are described by a chain of coupled parafermions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-11 Johannes Motruk , Ari M. Turner , Erez Berg , Frank Pollmann

We study topological field theory describing gapped phases of gauge theories where the gauge symmetry is partially Higgsed and partially confined. The TQFT can be formulated both in the continuum and on the lattice and generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 Anton Kapustin , Ryan Thorngren

For a zero-temperature Landau symmetry breaking transition in $n$-dimensional space that completely breaks a finite symmetry $G$, the critical point at the transition has the symmetry $G$. In this paper, we show that the critical point also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Wenjie Ji , Xiao-Gang Wen