Wave functions of bosonic symmetry protected topological phases

We study the structure of the ground-state wave functions of bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) insulators in three space dimensions. We demonstrate that the differences with conventional insulators are captured simply in a dual vortex description. As an example, we show that a previously...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xu, Cenke, Todadri, Senthil
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/1721.1/89161
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-4148