Spin TQFTs and fermionic phases of matter

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DOI10.1142/S0217751X16450445zbMATH Open1351.81084arXiv1505.05856OpenAlexW3105912082MaRDI QIDQ5507435FDOQ5507435


Authors: Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 December 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study lattice constructions of gapped fermionic phases of matter. We show that the construction of fermionic Symmetry Protected Topological orders by Gu and Wen has a hidden dependence on a discrete spin structure on the Euclidean space-time. The spin structure is needed to resolve ambiguities which are otherwise present. An identical ambiguity is shown to arise in the fermionic analog of the string-net construction of 2D topological orders. We argue that the need for a spin structure is a general feature of lattice models with local fermionic degrees of freedom and is a lattice analog of the spin-statistics relation.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05856




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