Symmetry protected topological orders and the group cohomology of their symmetry group

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped short-range-entangled quantum phases with a symmetry G. They can all be smoothly connected to the same trivial product state if we break the symmetry. The Haldane phase of spin-1 chain is the first example of SPT phases which is protected by SO(...

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Main Authors: Chen, Xie, Gu, Zheng-Cheng, Liu, Zheng-Xin, Wen, Xiao-Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88734
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-581X