Wave Functions of Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases

Abstract

We study the structure of the ground state wave functions of bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological (SPT) insulators in 3 space dimensions. We demonstrate that the differences with conventional insulators are captured simply in a dual vortex description. As an example we show that a previously studied bosonic topological insulator with both global U(1) and time-reversal symmetry can be described by a rather simple wave function written in terms of dual "vortex ribbons". The wave function is a superposition of all the vortex ribbon configurations of the boson, and a factor (-1) is associated with each self-linking of the vortex ribbons. This wave function can be conveniently derived using an effective field theory of the SPT in the strong coupling limit, and it naturally explains all the phenomena of this SPT phase discussed previously. The ground state structure for other 3d bosonic SPT phases are also discussed similarly in terms of vortex loop gas wave functions. We show that our methods reproduce known results on the ground state structure of some 2d SPT phases.

10 pages, 4 figures

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