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Gapped Lineon and Fracton Models on Graphs

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-03-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce a ZN\mathbb{Z}_N stabilizer code that can be defined on any spatial lattice of the form Γ×CLz\Gamma\times C_{L_z}, where Γ\Gamma 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 ZN\mathbb{Z}_N 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 NN-reduction" of the Jacobian group of the graph Γ\Gamma. In the special case when space is an L×L×LzL\times L\times L_z cubic lattice, the logarithm of the GSD depends on LL in an erratic way and grows no faster than O(L)O(L). We also discuss another gapped model, the ZN\mathbb{Z}_N 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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T03:01:42.655Z