Classification of topological phases in periodically driven interacting systems
Abstract
We consider topological phases in periodically driven (Floquet) systems exhibiting many-body localization, protected by a symmetry . We argue for a general correspondence between such phases and topological phases of undriven systems protected by symmetry , where the additional accounts for the discrete time translation symmetry. Thus, for example, the bosonic phases in spatial dimensions without intrinsic topological order (SPT phases) are classified by the cohomology group . For unitary symmetries, we interpret the additional resulting Floquet phases in terms of the lower-dimensional SPT phases that are pumped to the boundary during one time step. These results also imply the existence of novel symmetry-enriched topological (SET) orders protected solely by the periodicity of the drive.
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@article{arxiv.1602.04804,
title = {Classification of topological phases in periodically driven interacting systems},
author = {Dominic V. Else and Chetan Nayak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04804},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
3 pages + appendices, comments welcome. v3: final published version, with some arguments explained in more depth. v2: updated abstract, added reference