RT Journal Article
T1 Twisted fracton models in three dimensions
A1 Song, Hao
A1 Prem, Abhinav
A1 Huang, Sheng-Jie
A1 Martín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel Ángel
AB We study novel three-dimensional gapped quantum phases of matter which support quasiparticles with restricted mobility, including immobile " fracton" excitations. So far, most existing fracton models may be instructively viewed as generalized Abelian lattice gauge theories. Here, by analogy with Dijkgraaf-Witten topological gauge theories, we discover a natural generalization of fracton models, obtained by twisting the gauge symmetries. Introducing generalized gauge transformation operators carrying an extra phase factor depending on local configurations, we construct a plethora of exactly solvable three-dimensional models, which we dub "twisted fracton models." A key result of our approach is to demonstrate the existence of rich non-Abelian fracton phases of distinct varieties in a three-dimensional system with finite-range interactions. For an accurate characterization of these novel phases, the notion of being inextricably non-Abelian is introduced for fractons and quasiparticles with one-dimensional mobility, referring to their new behavior of displaying braiding statistics that is, and remains, non-Abelian regardless of which quasiparticles with higher mobility are added to or removed from them. We also analyze these models by embedding them on a 3-torus and computing their ground-state degeneracies, which exhibit a surprising and novel dependence on the system size in the non-Abelian fracton phases. Moreover, as an important advance in the study of fracton order, we develop a general mathematical framework which systematically captures the fusion and braiding properties of fractons and other quasiparticles with restricted mobility.
PB American physical society
SN 2469-9950
YR 2019
FD 2019-04-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13334
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13334
LA eng
NO ©2019 American Physical SocietyWe are grateful to Danny Bulmash, Fiona Burnell, Meng Cheng, Guillaume Dauphinais, Trithep Devakul, Michael Hermele, Yuting Hu, Rahul Nandkishore, Wilbur Shirley, Kevin Slagle, Shivaji Sondhi, Oscar Viyuela, JuvenWang, and Yizhi You for stimulating conversations and correspondence. H.S. and M.A.M.-D. acknowledge financial support from the Spanish MINECO Grant FIS2015-67411, and the CAM research consortium Grants QUITEMAD+ S2013/ICE-2801 and S2018/TCS-4342 QUITEMAD-CM. The research of M.A.M.-D. has been supported in part by the U.S. Army Research Office through Grants No. W911N F-14-1-0103 and No. WN11NF-14-1-0103. A.P. acknowledges support from the University of Colorado at Boulder. S.-J.H. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) under Award No. DE-SC0014415.
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 oct 2024