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Symmetry fractionalization is a ubiquitous feature of topologically ordered states that can be used to classify different symmetry-enriched topological phases and reveal some of their unique experimental signatures. Despite its vast…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-22 Félix Desrochers , Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim

We study the compactification of 5d SCFTs to 4d on a circle with a twist in a discrete global symmetry element of these SCFTs. We present evidence that this leads to various 4d N=2 isolated SCFTs. These include many known theories as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Gabi Zafrir

Symmetric extensions are essential in quantum mechanics, providing a lens to investigate the correlations of entangled quantum systems and to address challenges like the quantum marginal problem. Though semi-definite programming (SDP) is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Youning Li , Chao Zhang , Shi-Yao Hou , Zipeng Wu , Xuanran Zhu , Bei Zeng

We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the General Standard Model (GSM), a recently proposed framework that unifies particle physics and cosmology within the Gravitational Quantum Field Theory (GQFT). Constructed from first…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Yue-Liang Wu

Three-dimensional Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory has the peculiar property that its one-form symmetry defects have non-trivial braiding, namely they are charged under the same symmetry they generate, which is then anomalous. This poses a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-07 Riccardo Argurio , Francesco Benini , Matteo Bertolini , Giovanni Galati , Pierluigi Niro

We both review and augment the lightcone conformal truncation (LCT) method. LCT is a Hamiltonian truncation method for calculating dynamical quantities in QFT in infinite volume. This document is a self-contained, pedagogical introduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-11 Nikhil Anand , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Emanuel Katz , Zuhair U. Khandker , Matthew T. Walters , Yuan Xin

A large class of symmetries of topological quantum field theories is naturally described by functors into higher categories of topological defects. Here we study 2-group symmetries of 3-dimensional TQFTs. We explain that these symmetries…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Nils Carqueville , Benjamin Haake

We review the application of random matrix theory (RMT) to chiral symmetry in QCD. Starting from the general philosophy of RMT we introduce a chiral random matrix model with the global symmetries of QCD. Exact results are obtained for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 J. J. M. Verbaarschot

The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is central to the analysis of uniformly sampled signals, yet many practical applications involve non-uniform sampling, requiring the Non-Uniform Discrete Fourier Transform (NUDFT). While quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Junaid Aftab , Yuehaw Khoo , Haizhao Yang

We show that the CFT with symmetry group $G_{k_1}\times G_{k_2}\times \cdots \times G_{k_n}$ consisting of WZW models based on the same group $G$, but at arbitrary integer levels, admits an integrable deformation depending on $2(n-1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 George Georgiou , Konstantinos Sfetsos

We explore a novel interpretation of Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) as theories of gravity, proposing a holographic duality where the bulk SymTFT (with the gauging of a suitable Lagrangian algebra) is dual to the universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Andrea Antinucci , Francesco Benini , Giovanni Rizi

Recent proposals for the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) of Maxwell theory admit a 0-form symmetry compatible with the classical $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ duality of electromagnetism. We describe how to realize these automorphisms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-24 Azeem Hasan , Shani Meynet , Daniele Migliorati

Spacetime inversion symmetries such as parity and time reversal play a central role in physics, but they are usually treated as global symmetries. In quantum gravity there are no global symmetries, so any spacetime inversion symmetries must…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-25 Daniel Harlow , Tokiro Numasawa

We study $\mathbb{Z}_N$ one-form center symmetries in four-dimensional gauge theories using the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In this context, the associated TFT in the five-dimensional bulk is the BF model. We revisit its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-27 Zhihao Duan , Qiang Jia , Sungjay Lee

We discuss the geometric origin of discrete higher form symmetries of quantum field theories in terms of defect groups from geometric engineering in M-theory. The flux non-commutativity in M-theory gives rise to (mixed) 't Hooft anomalies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Federica Albertini , Michele Del Zotto , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Saghar S. Hosseini

In this letter we use the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to establish a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. These are that no global symmetries are possible, that internal gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel Harlow , Hirosi Ooguri

Non-invertible symmetries have recently been understood to provide interesting contraints on RG flows of QFTs. In this work, we show how non-invertible symmetries can also be used to generate entirely new RG flows, by means of so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Justin Kaidi , Gabi Zafrir , Yunqin Zheng

We derive a framework to apply topological quantum chemistry in systems subject to magnetic flux. We start by deriving the action of spatial symmetry operators in a uniform magnetic field, which extends Zak's magnetic translation groups to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano

Symmetry-protected topological phases (SPT) are short-range entangled gapped states protected by global symmetry. Nontrivial SPT phases cannot be adiabatically connected to the trivial disordered state(or atomic insulator) as long as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-02 Peng Ye , Zheng-Cheng Gu

A new approach is proposed to the analysis of generalized synchronization of multidimensional chaotic systems. The approach is based on the symbolic analysis of discrete sequences in the basis of a finite T-alphabet. In fact, the symbols of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-19 A. V. Makarenko