Two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological orders and their protected gapless edge excitations

Topological insulators in free fermion systems have been well characterized and classified. However, it is not clear in strongly interacting boson or fermion systems what symmetry-protected topological orders exist. In this paper, we present a model in a two-dimensional (2D) interacting spin system...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Xie, Liu, Zheng-Xin, Wen, Xiao-Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72029
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-581X