Superconductivity from valley fluctuations and approximate SO (4) symmetry in a weak coupling theory of twisted bilayer graphene

YZ You, A Vishwanath - npj Quantum Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The recent discovery of the Mott insulating and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer
graphene has generated tremendous research interest. Here, we develop a weak coupling …

Topological zero-dimensional defect and flux states in three-dimensional insulators

F Schindler, SS Tsirkin, T Neupert… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In insulating crystals, it was previously shown that defects with two fewer dimensions than
the bulk can bind topological electronic states. We here further extend the classification of …

Non-Abelian string and particle braiding in topological order: Modular representation and -dimensional twisted gauge theory

JC Wang, XG Wen - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
String and particle braiding statistics are examined in a class of topological orders described
by discrete gauge theories with a gauge group G and a 4-cocycle twist ω 4 of G's …

Spin-resolved topology and partial axion angles in three-dimensional insulators

KS Lin, G Palumbo, Z Guo, Y Hwang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Symmetry-protected topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) have primarily been
characterized by their gapless boundary states. However, in time-reversal-(T-) invariant …

Field-theory representation of gauge-gravity symmetry-protected topological invariants, group cohomology, and beyond

JC Wang, ZC Gu, XG Wen - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The challenge of identifying symmetry-protected topological states (SPTs) is due to their lack
of symmetry-breaking order parameters and intrinsic topological orders. For this reason, it is …

Braiding statistics and link invariants of bosonic/fermionic topological quantum matter in 2+ 1 and 3+ 1 dimensions

P Putrov, J Wang, ST Yau - Annals of Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) pertinent to some emergent low
energy phenomena of condensed matter lattice models in 2+ 1 and 3+ 1 dimensions are …

Time reversal, SU (N) Yang–Mills and cobordisms: Interacting topological superconductors/insulators and quantum spin liquids in 3+ 1D

M Guo, P Putrov, J Wang - Annals of Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
We introduce a web of strongly correlated interacting 3+ 1D topological superconductors/
insulators of 10 particular global symmetry groups of Cartan classes, realizable in electronic …

Generalized Modular Transformations in Topologically Ordered Phases and Triple Linking Invariant of Loop Braiding

S Jiang, A Mesaros, Y Ran - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
In topologically ordered quantum states of matter in (2+ 1) D (spacetime dimensions), the
braiding statistics of anyonic quasiparticle excitations is a fundamental characterizing …

Fusion rules and shrinking rules of topological orders in five dimensions

Y Huang, ZF Zhang, P Ye - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract As a series of work about 5D (spacetime) topological orders, here we employ the
path-integral formalism of 5D topological quantum field theory (TQFT) established in Zhang …

Bosonic anomalies, induced fractional quantum numbers, and degenerate zero modes: The anomalous edge physics of symmetry-protected topological states

JC Wang, LH Santos, XG Wen - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The boundary of symmetry-protected topological states (SPTs) can harbor new quantum
anomaly phenomena. In this work, we characterize the bosonic anomalies introduced by the …