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In this paper, we study linear control systems with positive bounded orbits. We show that the existence of positive bounded orbits imposes strong algebraic and topological constraints on the state space. In fact, a linear control system has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Victor Ayala , Adriano Da Silva

Systems displaying quantum topological order feature robust characteristics that are very attractive to quantum computing schemes. Topological quantum field theories have proven to be powerful in capturing the quintessential attributes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 P. Vojta , G. Ortiz , Z. Nussinov

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem states that a spin system with translation and spin rotation symmetry and half-integer spin per unit cell does not admit a gapped symmetric ground state lacking fractionalized excitations. That is, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-30 Dominic V. Else , Ryan Thorngren

A topological quantum field theory is Hermitian if it is both oriented and complex-valued, and orientation-reversal agrees with complex-conjugation. A field theory satisfies spin-statistics if it is both spin and super, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Theo Johnson-Freyd

Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime (QFT on CS) is a well established theoretical framework which intuitively should be a an extremely effective description of the quantum nature of matter when propagating on a given background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 Kristina Giesel , Johannes Tambornino , Thomas Thiemann

We elaborate the idea of quantum computation through measuring the correlation of a gapped ground state, while the bulk Hamiltonian is utilized to stabilize the resource. A simple computational primitive, by pulling out a single spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 Akimasa Miyake

We propose a new method of constructing the quantum Griffiths inequality. From a viewpoint of operator inequalities, we first study the quantum rotor model. This viewpoint clarifies important connections between the reflection positivity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Tadahiro Miyao

We construct microscopic Hamiltonians for symmetry-preserving topologically ordered states on the surface of topological crystalline superconductors, protected by a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ reflection symmetry. Starting from $\nu$ Majorana cones on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-18 Meng Cheng

In our previous article [arXiv:2307.12552], we introduced local topological order (LTO) axioms for quantum spin systems which allowed us to define a physical boundary manifested by a net of boundary algebras in one dimension lower. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Corey Jones , Pieter Naaijkens , David Penneys

It has been recently shown that the presence of topological frustration, induced by periodic boundary conditions in an antiferromagnetic $XY$ chain made of an odd number of spins, prevents the realization of a perfectly staggered local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Vanja Marić , Salvatore Marco Giampaolo , Fabio Franchini

We ask whether a local Hamiltonian with a featureless (fully gapped and nondegenerate) ground state could exist in certain quantum spin systems. We address this question by mapping the vicinity of certain quantum critical point (or gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Chao-Ming Jian , Zhen Bi , Cenke Xu

Recently, the stability of certain topological phases of matter under weak perturbations was proven. Here, we present a short, alternate proof of the same result. We consider models of topological quantum order for which the unperturbed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Bravyi , M. B. Hastings

We study the robustness of quantum information stored in the degenerate ground space of a local, frustration-free Hamiltonian with commuting terms on a 2D spin lattice. On one hand, a macroscopic energy barrier separating the distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Olivier Landon-Cardinal , David Poulin

Magnetic spin topological textures recently found their electrical counterparts in polar topologies emerging from the condensation of inhomogeneous polar atomic distortions. Here, we further extend the concept to other non-polar atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , Philippe Ghosez

We propose a new notion of positivity for topological field theories (TFTs), based on S. Eilenberg's concept of completeness for semirings. We show that a complete ground semiring, a system of fields on manifolds and a system of action…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Markus Banagl

The bulk to boundary mapping for massive scalar fields is constructed, providing a de Sitter analog of the LSZ reduction formula. The set of boundary correlators thus obtained defines a potentially new class of conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Atreya Chatterjee , David A. Lowe

We present a unifying framework to study physical systems which exhibit topological quantum order (TQO). The guiding principle behind our approach is that of symmetries and entanglement. We introduce the concept of low-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-29 Zohar Nussinov , Gerardo Ortiz

We show that Hall conductance and its non-abelian and higher-dimensional analogs are obstructions to promoting a symmetry of a state to a gauge symmetry. To do this, we define a local Lie algebra over a Grothendieck site as a pre-cosheaf of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Adam Artymowicz , Anton Kapustin , Bowen Yang

We propose a consistent set of boundary conditions for gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime at spacelike infinity, which yields an enhancement of the Bondi-Metzner Sachs group with smooth superrotations and new subleading symmetries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Adrien Fiorucci , Javier Matulich , Romain Ruzziconi

Kinetic magnetism is an iconic and rare example of collective quantum order that emerges from the interference of paths taken by a hole in a sea of strongly interacting fermions. Here the lattice topology plays a fundamental role, with odd…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Revathy B S , Shovan Dutta