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Exotic invertible phases with higher-group symmetries

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Po-Shen Hsin
Wenjie Ji
Chao-Ming Jian

Abstract

We investigate a family of invertible phases of matter with higher-dimensional exotic excitations in even spacetime dimensions, which includes and generalizes the Kitaev’s chain in 1+1d. The excitation has Z2 higher-form symmetry that mixes with the spacetime Lorentz symmetry to form a higher group spacetime symmetry. We focus on the invertible exotic loop topological phase in 3+1d. This invertible phase is protected by the Z2 one-form symmetry and the time-reversal symmetry, and has surface thermal Hall conductance not realized in conventional time-reversal symmetric ordinary bosonic systems without local fermion particles and the exotic loops. We describe a UV realization of the invertible exotic loop topological order using the SO(3)− gauge theory with unit discrete theta parameter, which enjoys the same spacetime two-group symmetry. We discuss several applications including the analogue of “fermionization†for ordinary bosonic theories with Z2 non-anomalous internal higher-form symmetry and time-reversal symmetry. Copyright P.-S. Hsin et al.

Date Published

Journal

SciPost Physics

Volume

12

Issue

2

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85126107452&doi=10.21468%2fSCIPOSTPHYS.12.2.052&partnerID=40&md5=56a1b48b358f7a79f7abda63e60a361d

DOI

10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.12.2.052

Group (Lab)

Chao-Ming Jian Group

Funding Source

DMR-1920434
DE-SC0011632

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