Strong 3D planar subsystem symmetry-protected topological phases and their dual fracton orders

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Abstract

We classify subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) phases in 3+1D protected by planar subsystem symmetries: short-range entangled phases which are dual to long-range entangled abelian fracton topological orders via a generalized `gauging' duality. We distinguish between weak SSPTs, which can be constructed by stacking 2+1D SPTs, and strong SSPTs, which cannot. We identify signatures of strong phases, and show by explicit construction that such phases exist. A classification of strong phases is presented for an arbitrary finite abelian group. Finally, we show that fracton orders realizable via p-string condensation are dual to weak SSPTs, while those dual to strong SSPTs do not admit such a realization.

*T.D. is supported by the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship at Princeton University.
W.S. is supported by the National Science Foundation under award number DMR-1654340 and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech.
J.W. was supported by NSF Grant PHY-1606531, Institute for Advanced Study, NSF Grant DMS-1607871 ``Analysis, Geometry and Mathematical Physics'', and the Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University.

Presenters

  • Trithep Devakul

    • Princeton University

Authors

  • Trithep Devakul

    • Princeton University
  • Wilbur Shirley

    • Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology
  • Juven C Wang

    • Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvary University
    • Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University