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Title: Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases and cobordisms

Abstract

It has been proposed recently that interacting Symmetry Protected Topological Phases can be classified using cobordism theory. We test this proposal in the case of Fermionic SPT phases with \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_2 \) symmetry, where \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_2 \) is either time-reversal or an internal symmetry. We find that cobordism classification correctly describes all known Fermionic SPT phases in space dimension D ≤ 3 and also predicts that all such phases can be realized by free fermions. In higher dimensions we predict the existence of inherently interacting fermionic SPT phases

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1599360
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0011632; FG02-92ER40701
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Topological Field Theories; Effective field theories; Topological States of Matter

Citation Formats

Kapustin, Anton, Thorngren, Ryan, Turzillo, Alex, and Wang, Zitao. Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases and cobordisms. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2015)052.
Kapustin, Anton, Thorngren, Ryan, Turzillo, Alex, & Wang, Zitao. Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases and cobordisms. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)052
Kapustin, Anton, Thorngren, Ryan, Turzillo, Alex, and Wang, Zitao. Thu . "Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases and cobordisms". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)052. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1599360.
@article{osti_1599360,
title = {Fermionic symmetry protected topological phases and cobordisms},
author = {Kapustin, Anton and Thorngren, Ryan and Turzillo, Alex and Wang, Zitao},
abstractNote = {It has been proposed recently that interacting Symmetry Protected Topological Phases can be classified using cobordism theory. We test this proposal in the case of Fermionic SPT phases with \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_2 \) symmetry, where \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_2 \) is either time-reversal or an internal symmetry. We find that cobordism classification correctly describes all known Fermionic SPT phases in space dimension D ≤ 3 and also predicts that all such phases can be realized by free fermions. In higher dimensions we predict the existence of inherently interacting fermionic SPT phases},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP12(2015)052},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 12,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
month = {12}
}

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