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The natural existence of crystalline symmetry in real materials manifests the importance of understanding crystalline symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, especially for interacting systems. In this paper, we systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Jian-Hao Zhang , Shang-Qiang Ning , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Non-invertible categorical symmetries have emerged as a powerful tool to uncover new beyond-Landau phases of matter, both gapped and gapless, along with second order phase transitions between them. The general theory of such phases in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) is a convenient tool for studying finite generalized symmetries of a given quantum field theory (QFT). In particular, SymTFTs encode all the symmetry structures and properties, including anomalies.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Fabio Apruzzi , Francesco Bedogna , Nicola Dondi

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 propose a formula for the transformation law of anyons in topologically ordered phases or topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) through a gapped or symmetry-preserving domain wall. Our formalism is based on the ring homomorphism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Yoshiki Fukusumi

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

Geometric engineering is a collection of tools developed to establish dictionaries between local singularities in string theory and (supersymmetric) quantum fields. Extended operators and defects, as well as their higher quantum numbers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-31 Michele Del Zotto , Shani Nadir Meynet , Robert Moscrop

The algebraic or ring structure of anyons, called the fusion rule, is one of the most fundamental research interests in contemporary studies on topological orders (TOs) and the corresponding conformal field theories (CFTs). Recently, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Yoshiki Fukusumi

Symmetry under time-reversal appears in the microscopic description of many physical systems. In a quantum mechanical setting it acts as an anti-unitary operator, so does not fall under general analyses based on unitary symmetries. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Lea E. Bottini , Nick G. Jones

We derive the Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) for 3d supersymmetric quantum field theories (QFTs) constructed in M-theory either via geometric engineering or holography. These 4d SymTFTs encode the symmetry structures of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Marieke van Beest , Dewi S. W. Gould , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

The interplay between symmetry and topological properties plays a very important role in modern physics. In the past decade, the concept of symmetry-enriched topological (SET) phases was proposed and their classifications have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Jing-Ren Zhou , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We extend the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) framework to open quantum systems. Using canonical purification, we embed mixed states into a doubled (2+1)-dimensional topological order and employ the slab construction to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ran Luo , Yi-Nan Wang , Zhen Bi

We use the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) to systematically characterize gapped phases in 2+1 dimensions with categorical symmetries. The SymTFTs that we consider are (3+1)d Dijkgraaf-Witten (DW) theories for finite groups $G$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-10 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman

Higher-order topological insulators have a modified bulk-boundary correspondence compared to other topological phases: instead of gapless edge or surface states, they have gapped edges and surfaces, but protected modes at corners or hinges.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-12 Yizhi You , Trithep Devakul , F. J. Burnell , Titus Neupert

We derive a series of quantitative bulk-boundary correspondences for 3D bosonic and fermionic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases under the assumption that the surface is gapped, symmetric and topologically ordered, i.e., a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Shang-Qiang Ning , Bin-Bin Mao , Zhengqiao Li , Chenjie Wang

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 study properties of boundary conditions (BCs) in theories with categorical (or non-invertible) symmetries. We describe how the transformation properties, or (generalized) charges, of BCs are captured by topological BCs of Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Christian Copetti , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

The $(D+1)$-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT$_{D+1}$) of a $D$-dimensional absolute quantum field theory (QFT$_D$) provides a topological characterization of symmetry data. In this framework, the SymTFT comes equipped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Oren Bergman , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Daniele Migliorati , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

We propose an embedding of the symTFT construction in (finite cut-off) holography. The proposal passes several non-trivial consistency checks reproducing the expected symTFTs in various cases, including the recently discussed symTFT for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Francesco Mignosa , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

The classification and construction of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases have been intensively studied in interacting systems recently. To our surprise, in interacting fermion systems, there exists a new class of the so-called…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 Qing-Rui Wang , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu