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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 96, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085125
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- University's Research Fund [15XNFL19]
- NSF of China [11574392]
- Major State Research Development Program of China [2016YFA0300500]
- National Science Foundation at the University of Illinois [DMR 1408713]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative [GBMF4305]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1408713] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In this paper, we propose a generalization of the S-duality of four-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED4) to QED4 with fractionally charged excitations, the fractional S-duality. Such QED4 can be obtained by gauging the U(1) symmetry of a topologically ordered state with fractional charges. When time-reversal symmetry is imposed, the axion angle (theta) can take a nontrivial but still time-reversal-invariant value pi/t(2) (t is an element of Z). Here, 1/t specifies the minimal electric charge carried by bulk excitations. Such states with time-reversal and U(1) global symmetry (fermion number conservation) are fractional topological insulators (FTIs). We propose a topological quantum field theory description, which microscopically justifies the fractional S-duality. Then, we consider stacking operations (i.e.,a direct sum of Hamiltonians) among FTIs. We find that there are two topologically distinct classes of FTIs: type I and type II. Type I (t is an element of Z(odd)) can be obtained by directly stacking a noninteracting topological insulator and a fractionalized gapped fermionic state with minimal charge 1/t and vanishing theta. But type II (t is an element of Zeven) cannot be realized through any stacking. Finally, we study the surface topological order of fractional topological insulators.
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