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We present a scheme to explicitly construct and classify general topological states jointly protected by an onsite symmetry group and a spatial symmetry group. We show that all these symmetry protected topological states can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Zhida Song , Sheng-Jie Huang , Yang Qi , Chen Fang , Michael Hermele

Topologically protected defects have been observed and studied in a wide range of fields, such as cosmology, spin systems, cold atoms and optics as they are quenched across a phase transition into an ordered state. Revealing their origin…

This work deals with the construction of networks of topological defects in models described by a single complex scalar field. We take advantage of the deformation procedure recently used to describe kinklike defects in order to build…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-29 V. I. Afonso , D. Bazeia , M. A. Gonzalez Leon , L. Losano , J. Mateos Guilarte

Higher-order topological phases with invertible symmetries have been extensively studied in recent years, revealing gapless modes localized on boundaries of higher codimension. In this work, we extend the framework of higher-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Aswin Parayil Mana , Yabo Li , Hiroki Sukeno , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Symmetries are ubiquitous in network systems and have profound impacts on the observable dynamics. At the most fundamental level, many synchronization patterns are induced by underlying network symmetry, and a high degree of symmetry is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-18 Joseph D. Hart , Yuanzhao Zhang , Rajarshi Roy , Adilson E. Motter

We study $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological ordered phases in 2+1 dimensions characterized by generalized modulated symmetries. Such phases have explicit realizations in terms of fixed-point Hamiltonians involving commuting projectors with support…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-13 Gustavo M. Yoshitome , Heitor Casasola , Rodrigo Corso , Pedro R. S. Gomes

We explore 1+1 dimensional (1+1D) gapped phases in systems with non-invertible symmetries, focusing on symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases (defined as gapped phases with non-degenerate ground states), as well as SPT orders (defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Ömer M. Aksoy , Xiao-Gang Wen

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

We study symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases of matter in 2D protected by symmetries acting on fractal subsystems of a certain type. Despite the total symmetry group of such systems being subextensively large, we show that only a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Trithep Devakul

Quantum systems in 3+1-dimensions that are invariant under gauging a one-form symmetry enjoy novel non-invertible duality symmetries encoded by topological defects. These symmetries are renormalization group invariants which constrain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Anuj Apte , Clay Cordova , Ho Tat Lam

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped quantum phases which host symmetry-protected gapless edge excitations. On the other hand, the edge states can be gapped by spontaneously breaking symmetry. We show that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-20 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

We classify one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases protected by dipole symmetries. A dipole symmetry comprises two sets of symmetry generators: charge and dipole operators, which together form a non-trivial algebra with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-10 Ho Tat Lam

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

Symmetries are important guiding principle for phase transitions. We systematically construct field theory models with local quantum fields that exhibit the following phase transitions: (1) different symmetry protected topological (SPT)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Po-Shen Hsin

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

In this paper we report that notions of topological protection can be applied to stationary configurations that are driven far from equilibrium by active, dissipative processes. We show this for physically two disparate cases : stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-08 Kinjal Dasbiswas , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

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

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are short-range entangled phases of matter with a non-local order parameter which are preserved under a local symmetry group. Here, by using unsupervised learning algorithm, namely the diffusion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-18 En-Jui Kuo , Hossein Dehghani

We make a systematic study of symmetry-protected topological gapped phases of quantum spin chains in the presence of the frieze space groups in one dimension using matrix product states. Here, the spatial symmetries of the one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper , Jacob C. Bridgeman , Nicolas Dewolf , Jutho Haegeman , Frank Verstraete

We develop a mathematical theory of symmetry protected trivial (SPT) orders and anomaly-free symmetry enriched topological (SET) orders in all dimensions via two different approaches with an emphasis on the second approach. The first…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Liang Kong , Tian Lan , Xiao-Gang Wen , Zhi-Hao Zhang , Hao Zheng