Gapped boundary theory of 3d topological orders
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Abstract
Gapped boundaries of 2d nonchiral topological orders are well-understood and characterized by Lagrangian subalgebras. We extend the study to 3d and show that there exists a wide variety of options for gapped boundaries even in the simplest bosonic and fermionic toric code models. These boundaries can be organized into two classes corresponding to whether the flux string can end at the boundary. We illustrate the boundary theories from various perspectives including coupled layer construction, Walker-Wang model and field theory. Our results can be naturally generalized to other 3d topological orders.
*Z.-X.L. is supported by the Simons Collaborations on Ultra-Quantum Matter, grant 651440 (SS and AV) from the Simons Foundation. A.V. was supported by a Simons Investigator award by the Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter, which is a grant from the Simons Foundation (651440, AV) and by NSF-DMR 2220703.
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Presenters
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Zhu-Xi Luo
- Harvard University