Double semions in arbitrary dimension

Abstract

We present a generalization of the double semion topological quantum field theory to higher dimensions, as a theory of $d-1$ dimensional surfaces in a $d$ dimensional ambient space. We construct a local Hamiltonian which is a sum of commuting projectors and analyze the excitations and the ground state degeneracy. Defining a consistent set of local rules requires the sign structure of the ground state wavefunction to depend not just on the number of disconnected surfaces, but also upon their higher Betti numbers through the semicharacteristic. For odd $d$ the theory is related to the toric code by a local unitary transformation, but for even $d$ the dimension of the space of zero energy ground states is in general different from the toric code and for even $d>2$ it is also in general different from that of the twisted $Z_2$ Dijkgraaf-Witten model.

v2: Showed theory has different ground state degeneracy than twisted Dijkgraaf-Witten. Minor corrections

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