Space-dependent symmetries and fractons

KT Grosvenor, C Hoyos, F Peña-Benítez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There has been a surge of interest in effective non-Lorentzian theories of excitations with
restricted mobility, known as fractons. Examples include defects in elastic materials, vortex …

Snowmass white paper: Generalized symmetries in quantum field theory and beyond

C Cordova, TT Dumitrescu, K Intriligator… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Symmetry plays a central role in quantum field theory. Recent developments include
symmetries that act on defects and other subsystems, and symmetries that are categorical …

Foliated field theories and multipole symmetries

H Ebisu, M Honda, T Nakanishi - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Due to the recent studies of the fracton topological phases, the host of which deconfined
quasiparticle excitations with mobility restrictions, the concept of symmetries has been …

Foliated-exotic duality in fractonic BF theories

K Ohmori, S Shimamura - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
There has been proposed two continuum descriptions of fracton systems: foliated quantum
field theories (FQFTs) and exotic quantum field theories. Certain fracton systems are …

Anomaly of subsystem symmetries in exotic and foliated BF theories

S Shimamura - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We study the mixed't Hooft anomaly of the subsystem symmetries in the exotic BF
theory and the foliated BF theory in 2+ 1 dimensions, both of which are fractonic quantum …

Gapped lineon and fracton models on graphs

P Gorantla, HT Lam, N Seiberg, SH Shao - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We introduce a ZN stabilizer code that can be defined on any spatial lattice of the form Γ× CL
z, where Γ is a general graph. We also present the low-energy limit of this stabilizer code as …

Higher-form subsystem symmetry breaking: Subdimensional criticality and fracton phase transitions

B Rayhaun, D Williamson - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Subsystem symmetry has emerged as a powerful organizing principle for unconventional
quantum phases of matter, most prominently fracton topological orders. Here, we focus on a …

Snowmass white paper: effective field theories for condensed matter systems

T Brauner, SA Hartnoll, P Kovtun, H Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We review recent progress and a number of future directions for applications of effective field
theory methods to condensed matter systems broadly defined. Our emphasis is on areas …

Scalar, fermionic and supersymmetric field theories with subsystem symmetries in d+ 1 dimensions

M Honda, T Nakanishi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study various non-relativistic field theories with exotic symmetries called
subsystem symmetries, which have recently attracted much attention in the context of …

Fractons on graphs and complexity

P Gorantla, HT Lam, SH Shao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We introduce two exotic lattice models on a general spatial graph. The first one is a matter
theory of a compact Lifshitz scalar field, while the second one is a certain rank-2 U (1) gauge …