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We generalize the idea of symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) for subsystem symmetry. We propose the 2-foliated BF theory with level $N$ in $(3+1)$d as subsystem SymTFT for subsystem $\mathbb Z_N$ symmetry in $(2+1)$d. Focusing on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Weiguang Cao , Qiang Jia

We examine the interplay of symmetry and topological order in $2+1$ dimensional fermionic topological phases of matter. We define fermionic topological symmetries acting on the emergent topological effective theory described using braided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-01 David Aasen , Parsa Bonderson , Christina Knapp

In accordance with recent progress of fracton topological phases, unusual topological phases of matter hosting fractionalized quasiparticle excitations with mobility constraints, new type of symmetry is studied -- multipole symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-16 Hiromi Ebisu , Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi

Symmetries and anomalies of a $d$-dimensional quantum field theory are often encoded in a $(d+1)$-dimensional topological action, called symmetry topological field theory (TFT). We derive the symmetry TFT for the 2-form and 1-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Fabio Apruzzi

The emerging study of fractons, a new type of quasi-particle with restricted mobility, has motivated the construction of several classes of interesting continuum quantum field theories with novel properties. One such class consists of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Hao Geng , Shamit Kachru , Andreas Karch , Richard Nally , Brandon C. Rayhaun

In general quantum field theories (QFTs), ordinary (0-form) global symmetries and 1-form symmetries can combine into 2-group global symmetries. We describe this phenomenon in detail using the language of symmetry defects. We exhibit a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-28 Francesco Benini , Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin

We broaden the scope of quantum field theory by introducing a general class of discrete gauge theories that realize either topological order or fracton behavior across dimensions. We start from translation-invariant systems endowed with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Guilherme Delfino , Claudio Chamon , Yizhi You

Recently, subdimensional particles including fractons have attracted much attention from various areas. Notable features of such matter phases are mobility constraints and subextensive ground state degeneracies (GSDs). In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-12 Hiromi Ebisu , Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi , Soichiro Shimamori

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

The usual condensed matter lattice theories do not include dynamical electromagnetic (EM) field and do not have higher symmetries naturally (unless we engineer fine-tuned toy models to realize higher symmetries). However, for gapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Xiao-Gang Wen

It is known that certain theories with extended supersymmetry can be discretized in such a way as to preserve an exact fermionic symmetry. In the simplest model of this kind, we show that this residual supersymmetric invariance is actually…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Simon Catterall

In two-dimensional topological phases, quasiparticle excitations can carry fractional symmetry quantum numbers. We generalize this notion of symmetry fractionalization to three-dimensional topological phases, in particular to loop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-12 Meng Cheng

We study various non-relativistic field theories with exotic symmetries called subsystem symmetries, which have recently attracted much attention in the context of fractons. We start with a scalar theory called $\phi$-theory in $d+1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi

In this work, we study unconventional anisotropic topologically ordered phases in $3d$ that manifest type-II fractonic physics along submanifolds. While they behave as usual topological order along a preferred spatial direction, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-29 Heitor Casasola , Guilherme Delfino , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Paula F. Bienzobaz

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

Framed combinatorial topology is a novel theory describing combinatorial phenomena arising at the intersection of stratified topology, singularity theory, and higher algebra. The theory synthesizes elements of classical combinatorial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Christoph Dorn , Christopher L. Douglas

We extend the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) framework beyond internal symmetries by including geometric data that encode spacetime symmetries. Concretely, we enrich the SymTFT of an internal symmetry by spacetime symmetries and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-16 Salvatore D. Pace , Ömer M. Aksoy , Ho Tat Lam

Supersymmetry can be consistently generalized in one and two dimensional spaces, fractional supersymmetry being one of the possible extension. 2D fractional supersymmetry of arbitrary order $F$ is explicitly constructed using an adapted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Rausch de Traubenberg , P. Simon

We construct Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) for continuous subsystem symmetries, which are inherently non-Lorentz-invariant. Our framework produces dual bulk descriptions -- gapped foliated and exotic SymTFTs -- that generate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Fabio Apruzzi , Francesco Bedogna , Salvo Mancani

We propose a manifestly supersymmetric formulation of the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SuSymTFT) for theories with supersymmetry. The SymTFT is a framework that helps organizing symmetries and anomalies of a QFT. Albeit a lot of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Federico Ambrosino , Alessandro Duci , Pietro Antonio Grassi , Silvia Penati