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Entanglement asymmetry is an observable in quantum systems, constructed using quantum-information methods, suited to detecting symmetry breaking in states -- possibly out of equilibrium -- relative to a subsystem. In this paper we define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Francesco Benini , Pasquale Calabrese , Michele Fossati , Amartya Harsh Singh , Marco Venuti

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

It was recently argued that quantum field theories possess one-form and higher-form symmetries, labelled `generalized global symmetries.' In this paper, we describe how those higher-form symmetries can be understood mathematically as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 E. Sharpe

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) gives a holographic correspondence between systems with a global symmetry and a higher-dimensional topological field theory. In this framework, classification of gapped phases of matter in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-02 Rui Wen , Andrew C. Potter

We develop a current-based construction of generalized symmetries in $(3+1)$D twisted $BF$ topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), focusing on intrinsically non-invertible higher-form symmetries and their mixed anomalies. Starting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Zhi-Feng Zhang , Yizhou Huang , Qing-Rui Wang , Peng Ye

We continue the investigation of symmetries and anomalies of $T[M]$ theories obtained by compactifying 6d SCFTs on an internal manifold $M$. We extend the notion of "polarizations on a manifold $M$" to cases where $M$ may have boundaries or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Sergei Gukov , Po-Shen Hsin , Du Pei

Symmetries are a key concept to connect mathematical elegance with physical insight. We consider measurement assemblages in quantum mechanics and show how their symmetry can be described by means of the so-called discrete bundles. It turns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 H. Chau Nguyen , Sébastien Designolle , Mohamed Barakat , Otfried Gühne

We derive universal constraints on $(1+1)d$ rational conformal field theories (CFTs) that can arise as transitions between topological theories protected by a global symmetry. The deformation away from criticality to the trivially gapped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Clay Cordova , Diego García-Sepúlveda

A systematic analysis is made of the relations between the symmetries of a classical field and the symmetries of the one-particle quantum system that results from quantizing that field in regimes where interactions are weak. The results are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-28 David Wallace

Handling symmetries in optimization problems is essential for devising efficient solution methods. In this article, we present a general framework that captures many of the already existing symmetry handling methods. While these methods are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Jasper van Doornmalen , Christopher Hojny

We propose a general framework to characterize gapped infra-red (IR) phases of theories with non-invertible (or categorical) symmetries. In this paper we focus on (1+1)d gapped phases with fusion category symmetries. The approach that we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We consider Abelian topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) in 3d and show that gaugings of invertible global symmetries naturally give rise to additive codes. These codes emerge as nonanomalous subgroups of the 1-form symmetry group,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Ahmed Barbar , Anatoly Dymarsky , Alfred D. Shapere

Noncommutative field theory (NCFT) is an extension of quantum field theory (QFT) that redefines spacetime, replacing commuting coordinates with a noncommutative structure. This shift fundamentally alters the way fields, interactions, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Badis Ydri

In this talk I review various notions of generalised global symmetry: higher-form, higher-group, and non-invertible symmetry. All these notions have had profound impact on quantum field theory research in the last decade. I highlight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-09 Joe Davighi

We show that certain global anomalies can be detected in an elementary fashion by analyzing the way the symmetry algebra is realized on the torus Hilbert space of the anomalous theory. Distinct anomalous behaviours imprinted in the Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Diego Delmastro , Davide Gaiotto , Jaume Gomis

We use the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) to study and classify gapped phases in (2+1)d for a class of categorical symmetries, referred to as being of bosonic type. The SymTFTs for these symmetries are given by twisted and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman , Jingxiang Wu

It is generally taken for granted that two-dimensional critical phenomena can be fully classified by the well known two-dimensional (rational) conformal quantum field theories (CQFTs). In particular it is believed that in models with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Adrian Patrascioiu , Erhard Seiler

We formulate a family of spin Topological Quantum Filed Theories (spin-TQFTs) as fermionic generalization of bosonic Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFTs. They are obtained by gauging $G$-equivariant invertible spin-TQFTs, or, in physics language,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Meng Guo , Kantaro Ohmori , Pavel Putrov , Zheyan Wan , Juven Wang

In this work, we study the universal total and symmetry-resolved entanglement spectra for a single interval of some $2$d Fermionic CFTs using the Boundary Conformal Field theory (BCFT) approach. In this approach, the partition of Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Himanshu Gaur

Recent work explores the candidate phases of the 4d adjoint quantum chromodynamics (QCD$_4$) with an SU(2) gauge group and two massless adjoint Weyl fermions. Both Cordova-Dumitrescu and Bi-Senthil propose possible low energy 4d topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-26 Zheyan Wan , Juven Wang