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Fractal Symmetric Phases of Matter

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arxiv 1805.04097 v3 pith:CLICWAXN submitted 2018-05-10 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.stat-mech

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We study spin systems which exhibit symmetries that act on a fractal subset of sites, with fractal structures generated by linear cellular automata. In addition to the trivial symmetric paramagnet and spontaneously symmetry broken phases, we construct additional fractal symmetry protected topological (FSPT) phases via a decorated defect approach. Such phases have edges along which fractal symmetries are realized projectively, leading to a symmetry protected degeneracy along the edge. Isolated excitations above the ground state are symmetry protected fractons, which cannot be moved without breaking the symmetry. In 3D, our construction leads additionally to FSPT phases protected by higher form fractal symmetries and fracton topologically ordered phases enriched by the additional fractal symmetries.

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    Introduces FTH as an extension of TH/SymTFT to type-I and type-II fracton orders, demonstrating boundary switches and dualities for X-cube and Haah's code via stabilizer formalism.

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    cond-mat.str-el 2019-08 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Subsystem symmetries can protect gapless hinges and corners in interacting 3D models, yielding higher-order topological phases that require no crystalline symmetry.

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