Foliated BF theories and Multipole symmetries

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Main Authors: Ebisu, Hiromi, Honda, Masazumi, Nakanishi, Taiichi
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author Ebisu, Hiromi
Honda, Masazumi
Nakanishi, Taiichi
author_facet Ebisu, Hiromi
Honda, Masazumi
Nakanishi, Taiichi
contents Due to the recent studies of the fracton topological phases, which host deconfined quasi-particle excitations with mobility restrictions, the concept of symmetries have been updated. Focusing on one of such new symmetries, multipole symmetries, including global, dipole, and quadruple symmetries, and gauge fields associated with them, we construct a new sets of $\mathbb{Z}_N$ $2+1d$ foliated BF theories, where BF theories of conventional topological phases are stacked in layers with couplings between them. By investigating gauge invariant non-local operators, we show that our foliated BF theories exhibit unusual ground state degeneracy depending on the system size; it depends on the greatest common divisor between $N$ and the system size. Our result provides a unified insight on UV lattice models of the fracton topological phases and other unconventional ones in view of foliated field theories.
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spellingShingle Foliated BF theories and Multipole symmetries
Ebisu, Hiromi
Honda, Masazumi
Nakanishi, Taiichi
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
Due to the recent studies of the fracton topological phases, which host deconfined quasi-particle excitations with mobility restrictions, the concept of symmetries have been updated. Focusing on one of such new symmetries, multipole symmetries, including global, dipole, and quadruple symmetries, and gauge fields associated with them, we construct a new sets of $\mathbb{Z}_N$ $2+1d$ foliated BF theories, where BF theories of conventional topological phases are stacked in layers with couplings between them. By investigating gauge invariant non-local operators, we show that our foliated BF theories exhibit unusual ground state degeneracy depending on the system size; it depends on the greatest common divisor between $N$ and the system size. Our result provides a unified insight on UV lattice models of the fracton topological phases and other unconventional ones in view of foliated field theories.
title Foliated BF theories and Multipole symmetries
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06701