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A topological insulator is regarded as an ideal candidate for information storage and high-speed lossless electrical transmission devices due to robust topological protected boundary modes. Previous studies revealed that symmetry exerts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

We consider asymmetric and symmetric dimerized two-leg ladders, comprising of four different lattice points per unit cell, illuminated by circularly polarized light. In the asymmetric dimerized ladder case, rungs are not perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Milad Jangjan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

Gapped quantum liquids (GQL) include both topologically ordered states (with long range entanglement) and symmetry protected topological (SPT) states (with short range entanglement). In this paper, we propose a classification of 2+1D GQL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-28 Tian Lan , Liang Kong , Xiao-Gang Wen

Discrete time crystals (DTCs) are non-equilibrium phases of matter that break the discrete time-translation symmetry and is characterized by a robust subharmonic response in periodically driven quantum systems. Here, we explore the DTC in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ling-Zhi Tang , Xiao Li , Z. D. Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang

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 examine the interplay of symmetry and topological order in $2+1$ dimensional topological phases of matter. We present a definition of the \it topological symmetry \rm group, which characterizes the symmetry of the emergent topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-16 Maissam Barkeshli , Parsa Bonderson , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

In this paper, we study the existence of Floquet topological insulators for PT symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We consider an array of waveguide in 1D with periodically changing non-Hermitian potential and predict the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 C. Yuce

We propose a new Floquet time crystal model that responds in arbitrary multiples of the driving period. Such an $n$-tuple discrete time crystal is theoretically constructed by permuting spins in a disordered chain and is well suited for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Hongye Yu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Floquet modulations often yield effective Hamiltonians not easily accessible in traditional time-dependent systems, which brings opportunities for exploring novel physics of quantum dynamics. We investigate a Floquet system exhibiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Suyang Lin , Ming Gong , Congjun Wu

Floquet quantum error-correcting codes provide an operationally economical route to fault tolerance by dynamically generating stabilizer structures using only two-body Pauli measurements. But while it is well established that stabilizer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yoshito Watanabe , Bianca Bannenberg , Simon Trebst

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 investigate the non-equilibrium topology of a periodically driven, dissipative Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain using the ensemble geometric phase (EGP) $\phi_{\mathrm{EGP}}$-a generalisation of the Zak phase to open quantum systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Görkem D. Dinc , Alexander Schnell , Andy M. Martin

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

Recently a new class of quantum phases of matter: symmetry protected topological states, such as topological insulators, attracted much attention. In presence of interactions, group cohomology provides a classification of these [X. Chen et…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-05 Andrej Mesaros , Ying Ran

We construct a class of period-$n$-tupling discrete time crystals based on $\mathbb{Z}_n$ clock variables, for all the integers $n$. We consider two classes of systems where this phenomenology occurs, disordered models with short-range…

Symmetry is one of the most generic and useful concepts in physics and chemistry, often leading to conservation laws and selection rules. For example, symmetry considerations have been used to predict selection rules for transitions in…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-22 Ofer Neufeld , Daniel Podolsky , Oren Cohen

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

Recent works have demonstrated that the Floquet-Bloch bands of periodically-driven systems feature a richer topological structure than their non-driven counterparts. The additional structure in the driven case arises from the periodicity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Frederik Nathan , Mark S. Rudner

We demonstrate the realization of a Discrete Time-Crystal (DTC) phase in a family of periodically driven, one-dimensional quadratic lattice Hamiltonians that can be obtained using spin chains. These interactions preserve integrability while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Rahul Chandra , Mahbub Rahaman , Soumyabroto Majumder , Analabha Roy , Sujit Sarkar

We put the theory of interacting topological crystalline phases on a systematic footing. These are topological phases protected by space-group symmetries. Our central tool is an elucidation of what it means to "gauge" such symmetries. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 Ryan Thorngren , Dominic V. Else