Disentangling beyond-cohomology symmetry protected topological phases

ORAL

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

Presenters

  • Lukasz Fidkowski

    • University of Washington

Authors

  • Jeongwan Haah

    • Microsoft
  • Lukasz Fidkowski

    • University of Washington
  • Matthew Hastings

    • Microsoft