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We study gapless phases in (3+1)d in the presence of 1-form and non-invertible duality symmetries. Using the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) approach, we classify the gapless symmetry-protected (gSPT) phases in these setups, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We discuss (1+1)d gapless phases with non-invertible global symmetries, also referred to as categorical symmetries. This includes gapless phases showing properties analogous to gapped symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases, known as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Alison Warman

We study the anomalies of non-invertible symmetries in 1+1D QFTs using gapped boundaries of its SymTFT. We establish the explicit relation between Lagrangian algebras which determine gapped boundaries of the SymTFT, and algebras which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-09 Pavel Putrov , Rajath Radhakrishnan

The study of gapless phases with categorical (or so-called non-invertible) symmetries is a formidable task, in particular in higher than two space-time dimensions. In this paper we build on previous works arXiv:2408.05266 and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Yuhan Gai , Sheng-Jie Huang , Kansei Inamura , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman

We present a general approach for detecting when a fusion category symmetry is anomalous, based on the existence of a special kind of Lagrangian algebra of the corresponding Drinfeld center. The Drinfeld center of a fusion category…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-05 Carolyn Zhang , Clay Córdova

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

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

In the realm of invertible symmetry, the topological approach based on classifying spaces dominates the classification of 't Hooft anomalies and symmetry protected topological phases. We explore the alternative algebraic approach based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Shi Chen

We develop a general framework for studying phases of mixed states with strong and weak symmetries, including non-invertible or categorical symmetries. The central idea is to consider a purification of the mixed state density matrix, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman , Carolyn Zhang

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 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

We determine the $d+1$ dimensional topological field theory, which encodes the higher-form symmetries and their 't Hooft anomalies for $d$-dimensional QFTs obtained by compactifying M-theory on a non-compact space $X$. The resulting theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Fabio Apruzzi , Federico Bonetti , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Saghar S. Hosseini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

This paper addresses the question of how categorical symmetries act on extended operators in quantum field theory. Building on recent results in two dimensions, we introduce higher tube categories and algebras associated to higher fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Thomas Bartsch , Mathew Bullimore , Andrea Grigoletto

Intrinsically gapless symmetry protected topological phases (igSPT) are gapless systems with SPT edge states with properties that could not arise in a gapped system with the same symmetry and dimensionality. igSPT states arise from gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-01 Rui Wen , Andrew C. Potter

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

It is known that the 't Hooft anomalies of invertible global symmetries can be characterized by an invertible TQFT in one higher dimension. The analogous statement remains to be understood for non-invertible symmetries. In this note we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Justin Kaidi , Emily Nardoni , Gabi Zafrir , Yunqin Zheng

Recently it has been observed that branes in geometric engineering and holography have a striking connection with generalized global symmetries. In this paper we argue that branes, in a certain topological limit, not only furnish the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-29 Fabio Apruzzi , Federico Bonetti , Dewi S. W. Gould , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Decoherence in realistic quantum platforms motivates a mixed-state notion of topological phases of matter, including average symmetry-protected topological (ASPT) phases. Alongside this progress, generalized symmetries--notably…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Linhao Li , Zhen Bi , Weiguang Cao

We study one-dimensional disordered systems with average non-invertible symmetries, where quenched disorder may locally break part of the symmetry while preserving it upon disorder averaging. A canonical example is the random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-11 Yabo Li , Meng Cheng , Ruochen Ma

We study topological holography for 2+1-D gapped and gapless phases with generalized symmetries using tools from higher linear algebra and higher condensation theory. We focus on bosonic fusion 2-category symmetries, where the Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Rui Wen
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