Interacting Edge States of Fermionic Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases in Two Dimensions

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 As Contributors: Meng Cheng Arxiv Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08953v5 (pdf) Date accepted: 2020-07-03 Date submitted: 2020-06-04 02:00 Submitted by: Cheng, Meng Submitted to: SciPost Physics Academic field: Physics Specialties: Condensed Matter Physics - Theory Quantum Physics Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

Recently, it has been found that there exist symmetry-protected topological phases of fermions, which have no realizations in non-interacting fermionic systems or bosonic models. We study the edge states of such an intrinsically interacting fermionic SPT phase in two spatial dimensions, protected by $\mathbb{Z}_4\times\mathbb{Z}_2^T$ symmetry. We model the edge Hilbert space by replacing the internal $\mathbb{Z}_4$ symmetry with a spatial translation symmetry, and design an exactly solvable Hamiltonian for the edge model. We show that at low-energy the edge can be described by a two-component Luttinger liquid, with nontrivial symmetry transformations that can only be realized in strongly interacting systems. We further demonstrate the symmetry-protected gaplessness under various perturbations, and the bulk-edge correspondence in the theory.

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Published as SciPost Phys. 9, 016 (2020)

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1. We have significantly expanded section 2 to include more background materials on concepts and ideas used in this work.

2. We renamed Section 5.5 to better reflect the actual content of the section.

3. Citations on gapping of null-vector type in a general Luttinger liquid are updated.

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Published as SciPost Phys. 9, 016 (2020)

Resubmission 1904.08953v5 on 4 June 2020
Submission 1904.08953v3 on 23 August 2019

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