期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 93, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.155121
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- Office of BES, Materials Sciences Division of the U. S. DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NSF [0645691]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0645691] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We study (2+1)-dimensional phases with topological order, such as fractional quantum Hall states and gapped spin liquids, in the presence of global symmetries. Phases that share the same topological order can then differ depending on the action of symmetry, leading to symmetry-enriched topological (SET) phases. Here, we present a K-matrix Chern-Simons approach to identify distinct phases with Abelian topological order, in the presence of unitary or antiunitary global symmetries. A key step is the identification of a smooth edge sewing condition that is used to check if two putative phases are indeed distinct. We illustrate this method by classifying Z(2) topological order (Z(2) spin liquids) in the presence of an internal Z(2) global symmetry for which we find six distinct phases. These include two phases with an unconventional action of symmetry that permutes anyons leading to symmetry-protected Majorana edge modes. Other routes to realizing protected edge states in SET phases are identified. Symmetry-enriched Laughlin states and double-semion theories are also discussed. Somewhat surprisingly, we observe that (i) gauging the global symmetry of distinct SET phases leads to topological orders with the same total quantum dimension, and (ii) a pair of distinct SET phases can yield the same topological order on gauging the symmetry.
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