Disentangling beyond-cohomology symmetry protected topological phases
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Abstract
We construct a three-dimensional locality preserving unitary operator which disentangles the ground state of the Walker-Wang three fermion model. We show that this locality preserving unitary operator cannot be a quantum circuit, or otherwise one could construct a commuting projector model which realizes a phase with nonzero chiral central charge, which is widely believed to be impossible. We comment on the relation to Many-body localized Floquet topological phases.
*NSF DMR-1519579, Microsoft Research
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Presenters
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Lukasz Fidkowski
- University of Washington