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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 106, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.125143
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This paper discusses fixed-point models for topological phases of matter using tensor networks, presenting a more general fixed-point ansatz not affected by certain restrictions, potentially providing a microscopic fixed-point description of chiral phases with strategies for concrete examples.
We consider fixed-point models for topological phases of matter formulated as discrete path integrals in the language of tensor networks. Such zero-correlation length models with an exact notion of topological invariance are known in the mathematical community as state-sum constructions or lattice topological quantum field theories. All of the established ansatzes for fixed-point models imply the existence of a gapped boundary as well as a commuting-projector Hamiltonian. Thus, they fail to capture topological phases without a gapped boundary or commuting-projector Hamiltonian, most notably chiral topological phases in 2 + 1 dimensions. In this paper, we present a more general fixed-point ansatz not affected by the aforementioned restrictions. Thus, our formalism opens up a possible way forward towards a microscopic fixed-point description of chiral phases and we present several strategies that may lead to concrete examples. Furthermore, we argue that our more general ansatz constitutes a universal form of topological fixed-point models, whereas established ansatzes are universal only for fixed-points of phases, which admit topological boundaries.
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