Fractional disclination charge in two-dimensional -symmetric topological crystalline insulators

T Li, P Zhu, WA Benalcazar, TL Hughes - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Robust fractional charge localized at disclination defects has recently been found as a
topological response in C 6-symmetric 2D topological crystalline insulators (TCIs). In this …

Fractional disclination charge and discrete shift in the Hofstadter butterfly

Y Zhang, N Manjunath, G Nambiar, M Barkeshli - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
In the presence of crystalline symmetries, topological phases of matter acquire a host of
invariants leading to nontrivial quantized responses. Here we study a particular invariant …

Quantized Charge Polarization as a Many-Body Invariant in Crystalline Topological States and Hofstadter Butterflies

Y Zhang, N Manjunath, G Nambiar, M Barkeshli - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We show how to define a quantized many-body charge polarization 𝒫→ for (2+ 1) D
topological phases of matter, even in the presence of nonzero Chern number and magnetic …

Topological states from topological crystals

Z Song, SJ Huang, Y Qi, C Fang, M Hermele - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
We present a scheme to explicitly construct and classify general topological states jointly
protected by an onsite symmetry group and a spatial symmetry group. We show that all …

Crystalline gauge fields and quantized discrete geometric response for Abelian topological phases with lattice symmetry

N Manjunath, M Barkeshli - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Clean isotropic quantum Hall fluids in the continuum possess a host of symmetry-protected
quantized invariants, such as the Hall conductivity, shift, and Hall viscosity. Here we develop …

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 …

Effective action approach to the filling anomaly in crystalline topological matter

P Rao, B Bradlyn - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In two dimensions, magnetic higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are characterized
by excess boundary charge and a compensating bulk “filling anomaly.” At the same time …

Detecting subsystem symmetry protected topological order through strange correlators

C Zhou, MY Li, Z Yan, P Ye, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We employ strange correlators to detect 2D subsystem symmetry protected topological
(SSPT) phases which are nontrivial topological phases protected by subsystem symmetries …

Continuum field theory of three-dimensional topological orders with emergent fermions and braiding statistics

ZF Zhang, QR Wang, P Ye - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Universal topological data of topologically ordered phases can be captured by topological
quantum field theory in continuous space time by taking the limit of low energies and long …

Higher-order entanglement and many-body invariants for higher-order topological phases

Y You, J Bibo, F Pollmann - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We discuss how strongly interacting higher-order symmetry protected topological (HOSPT)
phases can be characterized from the entanglement perspective: First, we introduce a …