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Main Authors: Vadali, Avi, Wang, Zongyuan, Dua, Arpit, Shirley, Wilbur, Chen, Xie
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04467
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author Vadali, Avi
Wang, Zongyuan
Dua, Arpit
Shirley, Wilbur
Chen, Xie
author_facet Vadali, Avi
Wang, Zongyuan
Dua, Arpit
Shirley, Wilbur
Chen, Xie
contents Flux binding is a mechanism that is well-understood for global symmetries. Given two systems, each with a global symmetry, gauging the composite symmetry instead of individual symmetries corresponds to the condensation of the composite of gauge charges belonging to individually gauged theories and the binding of the gauge fluxes. The condensed composite charge is created by a "short" string given by the new minimal coupling corresponding to the composite symmetry. This paper studies what happens when combined subsystem symmetries are gauged, especially when the component charges and fluxes have different sub-dimensional mobilities. We investigate $3+1$D systems with planar symmetries where, for example, the planar symmetry of a planon charge is combined with one of the planar symmetries of a fracton charge. We propose the principle of $\textit{Remote Detectability}$ to determine how the fluxes bind and potentially change their mobility. This understanding can then be used to design fracton models with sub-dimensional excitations that are decorated with excitations having nontrivial statistics or non-abelian fusion rules.
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spellingShingle Composite subsystem symmetries and decoration of sub-dimensional excitations
Vadali, Avi
Wang, Zongyuan
Dua, Arpit
Shirley, Wilbur
Chen, Xie
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Flux binding is a mechanism that is well-understood for global symmetries. Given two systems, each with a global symmetry, gauging the composite symmetry instead of individual symmetries corresponds to the condensation of the composite of gauge charges belonging to individually gauged theories and the binding of the gauge fluxes. The condensed composite charge is created by a "short" string given by the new minimal coupling corresponding to the composite symmetry. This paper studies what happens when combined subsystem symmetries are gauged, especially when the component charges and fluxes have different sub-dimensional mobilities. We investigate $3+1$D systems with planar symmetries where, for example, the planar symmetry of a planon charge is combined with one of the planar symmetries of a fracton charge. We propose the principle of $\textit{Remote Detectability}$ to determine how the fluxes bind and potentially change their mobility. This understanding can then be used to design fracton models with sub-dimensional excitations that are decorated with excitations having nontrivial statistics or non-abelian fusion rules.
title Composite subsystem symmetries and decoration of sub-dimensional excitations
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04467