Bifurcating entanglement-renormalization group flows of fracton stabilizer models

ORAL

Abstract

We investigate the entanglement-renormalization group flows of translation-invariant topological stabilizer models in three dimensions. Fracton models are observed to bifurcate under entanglement renormalization, generically returning at least one copy of the original model. Based on this behavior we formulate the notion of bifurcated equivalence for fracton phases, generalizing foliated fracton equivalence. The notion of quotient superselection sectors is also generalized accordingly. We calculate bifurcating entanglement-renormalization group flows for a wide range of examples and, based on those results, propose conjectures regarding the classification of translation-invariant topological stabilizer models in three dimensions.

*This work is supported by the start-up funds at Yale University (DW and MC), NSF under award number DMR-1846109 and the Alfred P. Sloan foundation (MC)

Presenters

  • Arpit Dua

    • Yale University

Authors

  • Arpit Dua

    • Yale University
  • Pratyush Sarkar

    • Yale University
  • Dominic Williamson

    • Physics, Stanford
    • Stanford Univ
    • Yale University
  • Meng Cheng

    • Yale University