Physics of Three-Dimensional Bosonic Topological Insulators: Surface-Deconfined Criticality and Quantized Magnetoelectric Effect

We discuss physical properties of “integer” topological phases of bosons in D = 3 + 1 dimensions, protected by internal symmetries like time reversal and/or charge conservation. These phases invoke interactions in a fundamental way but do not possess topological order; they are bosonic analogs of fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vishwanath, Ashvin, Todadri, Senthil
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89026
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-4148