Interacting SPT phases are not Morita invariant

DOI10.1007/S11005-022-01559-6MaRDI QIDQ2156089zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luuk Stehouwer

Publication date 15 July 2022

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07408

zbMATH Keywords

spectral sequenceinvertible field theorySPT phasestenfold way

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15) Statistical mechanics in condensed matter (general) (82D03)

Abstract: The tenfold way provides a strong organizing principle for invertible topological phases of matter. Mathematically, it is intimately connected with $K$-theory via the fact that there exist exactly ten Morita classes of simple real superalgebras. This connection is physically unsurprising, since weakly interacting topological phases are classified by $K$-theory. We argue that when strong interactions are present, care has to be taken when formulating the exact ten symmetry groups present in the tenfold way table. We study this phenomenon in the example of class D by providing two possible mathematical interpretations of a class D symmetry. These two interpretations of class D result in Morita-equivalent but different symmetry groups. As $K$-theory cannot distinguish Morita-equivalent protecting symmetry groups, the two approaches lead to the same classification of topological phases on the weakly interacting side. However, we show that these two different symmetry groups yield different interacting classifications in spacetime dimension 2+1. We use the approach to interacting topological phases using bordism groups, reducing the relevant classification problem to a spectral sequence computation.

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