Fracton as windows to topology, interaction and constraints in Emerging Phases of Matter

Informazioni relative al progetto

fracton

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101019431

DOI

10.3030/101019431

Progetto concluso il 31 Ottobre 2022

Data della firma CE 11 Marzo 2021

Data di avvio 1 Settembre 2021

Data di completamento 31 Agosto 2023

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Costo totale

€ 212 933,76

Contributo UE

€ 212 933,76

Coordinato da

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - fracton (Fracton as windows to topology, interaction and constraints in Emerging Phases of Matter)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-09-01 al 2023-08-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

• We conduct an extensive study of higher-order topological insulators in strongly correlated systems. In particular, we demonstrate a universal way to construct interacting HOTSCs via the coupled wire construction and identify anomalous hinge states from modular tensor categories. We also detect the HOTSCs via entanglement spectra and flux responses, and observe the supersymmetry structure in HOTSC flux states. In addition, we identify a zoology of Kitaev magnetic materials whose fractionalized excitations render emergent Majoranas with HOTSC structures.
• We explore a new type of emergent gauge theory in fracton systems and identify the tensor network realization of these states. In particular, we observe that all discrete fracton gauge theories can be obtained by anyon condensation of conventional Zn gauge theories. We simulate the entanglement entropy and mutual information of these gauge theories and link them to the holonomies of the ground state.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

• Interaction-enabled fractonic higher-order topological phases, Julian May-Mann, Yizhi You, Taylor L. Hughes, and Zhen Bi, Phys. Rev. B 105, 245122

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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• We explore the multipolar boson-Hubbard model in 1D that engenders a new type of quantum phase transition that exhibits self-fractal structure. We elucidate the critical exponent of this theory and discover a dimensional duality between the quantum model and the classical close-packed systems.
• We study the disorder effect in various SPT phases and recognize that the quenched disorder in some SPT phases is related to the quantum decoherence of quantum states in open systems.
• We explore the dipolar quantum Hall effect in 2D correlated fermion systems and develop a mathematical no-go theorem that bounds the thermal Hall conductance in dipolar quantum Hall states.

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