Gapped Lineon and Fracton Models on Graphs
Abstract
We introduce a stabilizer code that can be defined on any spatial lattice of the form , where is a general graph. We also present the low-energy limit of this stabilizer code as a Euclidean lattice action, which we refer to as the anisotropic Laplacian model. It is gapped, robust (i.e., stable under small deformations), and has lineons. Its ground state degeneracy (GSD) is expressed in terms of a "mod -reduction" of the Jacobian group of the graph . In the special case when space is an cubic lattice, the logarithm of the GSD depends on in an erratic way and grows no faster than . We also discuss another gapped model, the Laplacian model, which can be defined on any graph. It has fractons and a similarly strange GSD.
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@article{arxiv.2210.03727,
title = {Gapped Lineon and Fracton Models on Graphs},
author = {Pranay Gorantla and Ho Tat Lam and Nathan Seiberg and Shu-Heng Shao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03727},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
51+1 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. v2: minor clarifications