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Topological crystalline insulators are a class of materials with a bulk energy gap and edge or surface modes, which are protected by crystalline symmetry, at their boundaries. They have been realized in electronic systems: in particular, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Jian-Xiao Zhang , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Chao-Xing Liu

Symmetry Protected Topological (SPT) phases describe trivially-acting symmetries. We argue that a symmetry-based description of SPT phases ought to include the topological twist fields associated to the symmetry. Doing so allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Thomas Vandermeulen

Two dynamical systems are topologically equivalent when their phase-portraits can be morphed into each other by a homeomorphic coordinate transformation on the state space. The induced equivalence classes capture qualitative properties such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Wouter Jongeneel , Tobias Sutter , Daniel Kuhn

We study spin systems which exhibit symmetries that act on a fractal subset of sites, with fractal structures generated by linear cellular automata. In addition to the trivial symmetric paramagnet and spontaneously symmetry broken phases,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-16 Trithep Devakul , Yizhi You , F. J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

We extend the notions of multipole and subsystem symmetries to more general {\it spatially modulated} symmetries. We uncover two instances with exponential and (quasi)-periodic modulations, and provide simple microscopic models in one, two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-19 Pablo Sala , Julius Lehmann , Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are one of the simplest, yet nontrivial, gapped systems that go beyond the Landau paradigm. In this work, we study an extension of the notion of SPT for gapless systems, namely, gapless symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-17 Linhao Li , Masaki Oshikawa , Yunqin Zheng

We classify subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) phases in $3+1$D protected by planar subsystem symmetries, which are dual to abelian fracton topological orders. We distinguish between weak SSPTs, which can be constructed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-01 Trithep Devakul , Wilbur Shirley , Juven Wang

This work extends the theory of topological protection to dispersive systems. This theory has emerged from the field of topological insulators and has been established for continuum models in both classical and quantum settings. It predicts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Konstantinos Alexopoulos , Bryn Davies

It has been suggested that non-invertible symmetry protected topological phases (SPT), due to the lack of a stacking structure, do not have symmetric entanglers (globally symmetric finite-depth quantum circuits) connecting them. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-15 Minyoung You

Topological order has been proposed to go beyond Landau symmetry breaking theory for more than twenty years. But it is still a challenging problem to generally detect it in a generic many-body state. In this paper, we will introduce a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-19 Huan He , Heidar Moradi , Xiao-Gang Wen

Fusion category symmetries are finite symmetries in 1+1 dimensions described by unitary fusion categories. We classify 1+1d time-reversal invariant bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetry by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-27 Kansei Inamura

Fully decentralized Muon is difficult because its nonlinear matrix-sign operator does not commute with linear gossip averaging. This makes decentralized Muon a structural design problem: in designing the algorithm, one must distinguish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Hengrui Zhang , Boao Kong , Jiahe Geng , Zhengyang Huang

The standard approach to characterizing topological matter, computing topological invariants, fails when the symmetry protecting the topological phase is preserved only on average in a disordered system. Because topological invariants rely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 R. Johanna Zijderveld , Adam Yanis Chaou , Isidora Araya Day , Anton R. Akhmerov

Topological phases of matter are often understood and predicted with the help of crystal symmetries, although they don't rely on them to exist. In this chapter we review how topological phases have been recently shown to emerge in amorphous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-23 Adolfo G. Grushin

Symmetries are an essential feature of complex networks as they regulate how the graph collective dynamics organizes into clustered states. We here show how to control network symmetries, and how to enforce patterned states of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 L. V. Gambuzza , M. Frasca , F. Sorrentino , L. M. Pecora , S. Boccaletti

A 3d symmetry protected topological phase, by definition must have symmetry protected nontrivial boundary states, namely its 2d boundary must be either gapless or degenerate. In this work we demonstrate that once we couple a 3d SPT phase to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhen Bi , Alex Rasmussen , Cenke Xu

An important aspect in categorizing topological phases is whether the system is spinless or spinful, given that these classes exhibit distinct symmetry algebras, leading to disparate topological classifications. By utilizing the projective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiaofan Zhou , Suotang Jia , Jian-Song Pan

We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by non-interacting Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

Large language models suffer from "hallucinations"-logical inconsistencies induced by semantic noise. We propose that current architectures operate in a "Metric Phase," where causal order is vulnerable to spontaneous symmetry breaking.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ilmo Sung

Spurred by recent development of fracton topological phases, unusual topological phases possessing fractionalized quasi-particles with mobility constraints, the concept of symmetries has been renewed. In particular, in accordance with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Hiromi Ebisu , Masazumi Honda , Taiichi Nakanishi