Flux-Fusion Anomaly Test and Bosonic Topological Crystalline Insulators

We introduce a method, dubbed the flux-fusion anomaly test, to detect certain anomalous symmetry fractionalization patterns in two-dimensional symmetry-enriched topological (SET) phases. We focus on bosonic systems with Z_{2} topological order and a symmetry group of the form G=U(1)⋊G^{′}, where G^{...

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Main Authors: Michael Hermele, Xie Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-10-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041006