Two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases with PSU(N) and time-reversal symmetry
Abstract
Symmetry-protected topological phase is one type of nontrivial quantum disordered many-body state of matter. In this paper we study one class of symmetry-protected topological phases in two-dimensional space with both PSU(N) and time-reversal symmetry. These states can be described by a principal chiral model with a topological Θ term. As long as the time-reversal symmetry and PSU(N) symmetry are both preserved, the (1+1)-dimensional boundary of this system must be either gapless or degenerate. We will also construct a wave function of a spin-1 system on the honeycomb lattice, which is a candidate for the symmetry-protected topological phase with both SO(3) and time-reversal symmetry.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- July 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1212.1726
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvB..88a4425O
- Keywords:
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- 75.10.Kt;
- 75.10.Jm;
- 03.65.Vf;
- Quantized spin models;
- Phases: geometric;
- dynamic or topological;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 2 figures