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Noninvertible symmetry generalizes traditional group symmetries, advancing our understanding of quantum matter, especially one-dimensional gapped quantum systems. In critical lattice models, it is usually realized as emergent symmetries in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-02 Linhao Li , Rui-Zhen Huang , Weiguang Cao

We consider two $d \geq 2$ conformal field theories (CFTs) glued together along a codimension one conformal interface. The conformal anomaly of such a system contains both bulk and interface contributions. In a curved-space setup, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Christopher P. Herzog , Kuo-Wei Huang , Dmitri V. Vassilevich

Invertible fermionic topological (IFT) phases are gapped phases of matter with nondegenerate ground states on any closed spatial manifold. When open boundary conditions are imposed, nontrivial IFT phases support gapless boundary degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Ömer M. Aksoy , Christopher Mudry

We consider interfaces between critical spin-chains in different universality classes, described in the continuum limit by defect/interface conformal field theory (DCFT/ICFT). We find a new conformal interface between the Tricritical Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 António Antunes , Junchen Rong

We study properties of boundary conditions (BCs) in theories with categorical (or non-invertible) symmetries. We describe how the transformation properties, or (generalized) charges, of BCs are captured by topological BCs of Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Christian Copetti , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Measurement-only quantum circuits offer a versatile platform for realizing intriguing quantum phases of matter. However, gapless symmetry-protected topological (gSPT) states remain insufficiently explored in these settings. In this Letter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Xue-Jia Yu , Sheng Yang , Shuo Liu , Hai-Qing Lin , Shao-Kai Jian

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

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

A bosonic non-invertible Symmetry Protected Topological (NISPT) phase in (1+1)-dim is referred to as $\textit{intrinsic}$ if it cannot be mapped, under discrete gauging, to a gapped phase with any invertible symmetry, that is, if it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Da-Chuan Lu , Zhengdi Sun

We construct 2+1-dimensional lattice models of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with non-invertible symmetries and investigate their properties using tensor networks. These models, which we refer to as generalized cluster models,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Kansei Inamura , Shuhei Ohyama

We present simple lattice realizations of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with $q$-form global symmetries where charged excitations have $q$ spatial dimensions. Specifically, we construct $d$ space-dimensional models supported…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Beni Yoshida

Symmetry protected topological states (SPTs) have the same symmetry and the phase transition between them are beyond Landau's symmetry breaking formalism. In this paper we study (1) the critical theory of phase transition between trivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Xie Chen , Fa Wang , Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

Gauging a finite subgroup of a global symmetry can map conventional phases and phase transitions to unconventional ones. In this work, we study, as a concrete example, an emergent $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gauged system with global symmetry $U(1)$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-06 Lei Su , Meng Zeng

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped short-range-entangled quantum phases with a symmetry $G$, which can all be smoothly connected to the trivial product states if we break the symmetry. It has been shown that a large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-25 Zheng-Cheng Gu , Xiao-Gang Wen

Quantum field theories can exhibit various generalized symmetry structures, among which higher-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetry defects are particularly prominent. In this work, we explore a new general scenario in which these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Adrien Arbalestrier , Riccardo Argurio , Luigi Tizzano

Symmetry Protected Topological (SPT) phases are a minimal generalization of the concept of topological insulators to interacting systems. In this paper we describe the classification and properties of such phases for three dimensional(3D)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-01 Chong Wang , T. Senthil

A charged entanglement entropy is a new measure which probes quantum entanglement between different charge sectors. We study symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in 2+1 dimensional space-time by using this charged entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Shunji Matsuura , Xueda Wen , Ling-Yan Hung , Shinsei Ryu

In this note, we will characterize constraints on the possible IR phases of a given QFT by anomalies in the space of coupling constants. We will give conditions under which a coupling constant anomaly cannot be matched by a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-13 T. Daniel Brennan

In recent years we have learned that several four-dimensional field theories can manifest non-invertible zero-form symmetries generalizing the Kramers-Wannier duality defect of the 2d critical Ising model. Several recent works by various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Michele Del Zotto , Azeem Hasan , Elias Riedel Gårding

Symmetry protected topological phases exhibit nontrivial short-ranged entanglement protected by symmetry and cannot be adiabatically connected to trivial product states while preserving the symmetry. In contrast, intrinsic topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Yabo Li , Hiroki Sukeno , Aswin Parayil Mana , Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup , Tzu-Chieh Wei