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We consider quantum many body systems with generalized symmetries, such as the higher form symmetries introduced recently, and the "tensor symmetry". We consider a general form of lattice Hamiltonians which allow a certain level of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Decades of research have revealed a deep understanding of topological quantum matter with protected edge modes. We report that even richer physics emerges when tuning between two topological phases of matter whose respective edge modes are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-05 Saranesh Prembabu , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen

We investigate the physics of one-dimensional symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases protected by symmetries whose symmetry generators exhibit spatial modulation. We focus in particular on phases protected by symmetries with linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-20 Jung Hoon Han , Ethan Lake , Ho Tat Lam , Ruben Verresen , Yizhi You

We use low-depth quantum circuits, a specific type of tensor networks, to classify two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological many-body localized phases. For (anti-)unitary on-site symmetries we show that the (generalized) third…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-29 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

The interplay of symmetry and topology in quantum many-body mixed states has recently garnered significant interest. In a phenomenon not seen in pure states, mixed states can exhibit average symmetries -- symmetries that act on component…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ruochen Ma , Alex Turzillo

The boundary of symmetry-protected topological states (SPTs) can harbor new quantum anomaly phenomena. In this work, we characterize the bosonic anomalies introduced by the 1+1D non-onsite-symmetric gapless edge modes of 2+1D bulk bosonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-13 Juven Wang , Luiz H. Santos , Xiao-Gang Wen

Certain patterns of symmetry fractionalization in topologically ordered phases of matter are anomalous, in the sense that they can only occur at the surface of a higher dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) state. An important…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Maissam Barkeshli , Meng Cheng

Topology in quantum matter is typically associated with gapped phases. For example, in symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, the bulk energy gap localizes edge modes near the boundary. In this work we identify a new mechanism that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Ryan Thorngren , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruben Verresen

Recent studies have unveiled new possibilities for discovering intrinsic quantum phases that are unique to open systems, including phases with average symmetry-protected topological (ASPT) order and strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-21 Yuchen Guo , Shuo Yang

Identifying topological properties is a major challenge because, by definition, topological states do not have a local order parameter. While a generic solution to this challenge is not available yet, a broad class of topological states,…

We describe a systematic procedure for determining the identity of a 2D bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phase from the properties of its edge excitations. Our approach applies to general bosonic SPT phases with either unitary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Kyle Kawagoe , Michael Levin

We prove that the boundaries of all non-trivial 1+1 dimensional intrinsically fermionic symmetry-protected-topological phases, protected by finite on-site symmetries (unitary or anti-unitary), are supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Abhishodh Prakash , Juven Wang

Gapped interfaces (and boundaries) of two-dimensional (2D) Abelian topological phases are shown to support a remarkably rich sequence of 1D symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. We show that such interfaces can provide a physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-24 Luiz H. Santos , Jennifer Cano , Michael Mulligan , Taylor L. Hughes

Global symmetries greatly enrich the landscape of topological quantum phases, playing an essential role from topological insulators to fractional quantum Hall effect. Topological phases in mixed quantum states, originating from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Ruochen Ma , Jian-Hao Zhang , Zhen Bi , Meng Cheng , Chong Wang

We consider symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in 2D protected by linear subsystem symmetries, i.e. those that act along rigid lines. There is a distinction between a "strong" subsystem SPT phase, and a "weak" one, which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-19 Trithep Devakul , Dominic J. Williamson , Yizhi You

Boundary theories of static bulk topological phases of matter are obstructed in the sense that they cannot be realized on their own as isolated systems. The obstruction can be quantified/characterized by quantum anomalies, in particular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-03 Yuhan Liu , Hassan Shapourian , Paolo Glorioso , Shinsei Ryu

We establish a holographic duality between d-dimensional mixed-state symmetry-protected topological phases (mSPTs) and (d+1)-dimensional subsystem symmetry-protected topological states (SSPTs). Specifically, we show that the reduced density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Shijun Sun , Jian-Hao Zhang , Zhen Bi , Yizhi You

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

In this work, we introduce a new type of topological order which is protected by subsystem symmetries which act on lower dimensional subsets of lattice many-body system, e.g. along lines or planes in a three dimensional system. The symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-18 Yizhi You , Trithep Devakul , F. J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory may have 't Hooft anomalies. If the symmetry is unbroken in the vacuum, the anomaly implies a nontrivial low-energy limit, such as gapless modes or a topological field theory. If the symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-21 Itamar Hason , Zohar Komargodski , Ryan Thorngren