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Symmetry protected topological (SPT) states have boundary 't Hooft anomalies that obstruct an effective boundary theory realized in its own dimension with UV completion and an on-site $G$-symmetry. In this work, yet we show that a certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-15 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen , Edward Witten

One of the most promising applications of quantum computing is simulating quantum many-body systems. However, there is still a need for methods to efficiently investigate these systems in a native way, capturing their full complexity. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Korbinian Kottmann , Friederike Metz , Joana Fraxanet , Niccolo Baldelli

We study anomalies in time-reversal ($\mathbb{Z}_2^T$) and $U(1)$ symmetric topological orders. In this context, an anomalous topological order is one that cannot be realized in a strictly $(2+1)$-D system but can be realized on the surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-21 Matthew F. Lapa , Michael Levin

We introduce exactly solvable gapless quantum systems in $d$ dimensions that support symmetry protected topological (SPT) edge modes. Our construction leads to long-range entangled, critical points or phases that can be interpreted as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-08 Thomas Scaffidi , Daniel E. Parker , Romain Vasseur

Quantum-inspired tensor networks algorithms have shown to be effective and efficient models for machine learning tasks, including anomaly detection. Here, we propose a highly parallelizable quantum-inspired approach which we call SMT-AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Si Min Chan , Wenxuan Zhang , Swee Liang Wong , Joshua Lim , Dario Poletti

Topological phases in open quantum systems have become an exciting area of research, driven by the rising importance of noisy intermediate-scale quantum platforms. The concept of Average Symmetry-Protected Topological (ASPT) phases extends…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-01 Jian-Hao Zhang , Yang Qi , Zhen Bi

Symmetry-protected phases are gapped phases of matter which are distinguished only in the presence of a global symmetry G. These quantum phases lack any symmetry-breaking or topological order, and have short-range entangled ground states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-22 Nick Bultinck

A hallmark of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) are topologically protected boundary states, which are immune to perturbations that respect the protecting symmetry. It is commonly believed that any perturbation that destroys an…

One of the central ideas regarding anomalies in topological phases of matter is that they imply the existence of higher-dimensional physics, with an anomaly in a D-dimensional theory typically being cancelled by a bulk (D+1)-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-08 Ethan Lake

Symmetries and quantum anomalies serve as powerful tools for constraining complicated quantum many-body systems, offering valuable insights into low-energy characteristics based on their ultraviolet structure. Nevertheless, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-10 Yunlong Zang , Yingfei Gu , Shenghan Jiang

The classification of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in one dimension has been recently achieved, and had a fundamental impact in our understanding of quantum phases in condensed matter physics. In this framework, SPT phases…

Anomalous global symmetries, which can be realized on the boundary of symmetry-protected topological phases, brings new phases and phase transitions to condensed matter physics. In this work, we study a one dimensional model with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-11 Jin-Xiang Hao , Wei Li , Yang Qi

We investigate the influence of local decoherence on a symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase of the two-dimensional (2D) cluster state. Mapping the 2D cluster state under decoherence to a classical spin model, we show a topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Yuxuan Guo , Yuto Ashida

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in understanding complex quantum matter, particularly in classifying topological quantum phases, which have attracted great interests in the recent decade. An outstanding example is the time-reversal…

Previous work [SciPost Phys. 14, 129 (2023)] has demonstrated that quantum simulation of abelian lattice gauge theories (Wegner models including the toric code in a limit) in general dimensions can be achieved by local adaptive measurements…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Takuya Okuda , Aswin Parayil Mana , Hiroki Sukeno

We discuss physical constructions, and the boundary properties of various symmetry protected topological phases that involve 1-form symmetries, from one spatial dimension (1d) to four spatial dimensions (4d). For example, the prototype 3d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Chao-Ming Jian , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Yichen Xu , Cenke Xu

Timely detection of abrupt anomalies is crucial for real-time monitoring and security of modern systems producing high-dimensional data. With this goal, we propose effective and scalable algorithms. Proposed algorithms are nonparametric as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Mehmet Necip Kurt , Yasin Yilmaz , Xiaodong Wang

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped phases of matter that cannot be deformed to a trivial phase without breaking the symmetry or closing the bulk gap. Here, we introduce a new notion of a topological obstruction that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Eslam Khalaf , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Taylor L. Hughes , Raquel Queiroz

Mixed-state phases have recently attracted significant attention as a generalization beyond their pure-state counterparts. Prominent examples include mixed-state symmetry-protected topological (mSPT) phases and the strong-to-weak symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-05 Aswin Parayil Mana , Zijian Song , Fei Yan , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Twisting symmetries provides an efficient method to diagnose symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. In this paper, edge theories of (2+1)-dimensional topological phases protected by reflection as well as other symmetries are studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Gil Young Cho , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Takahiro Morimoto , Shinsei Ryu