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Fractons from confinement in one dimension
Shriya Pai, Michael Pretko
Recent work has shown that two seemingly different physical mechanisms, namely fracton behavior and confinement, can give rise to non-ergodicity in one-dimensional quantum many-bod…
Emergent fractons and algebraic quantum liquid from plaquette melting transitions
Yizhi You, Zhen Bi, Michael Pretko
Paramagnetic spin systems with spontaneously broken spatial symmetries, such as valence bond solid (VBS) phases, can host topological defects carrying non-trivial quantum numbers,…
Electric Circuit Realizations of Fracton Physics
Michael Pretko
We design a set of classical macroscopic electric circuits in which charge exhibits the mobility restrictions of fracton quasiparticles. The crucial ingredient in these circuits is…
Crystal-to-Fracton Tensor Gauge Theory Dualities
Michael Pretko, Zhengzheng Zhai, Leo Radzihovsky
We demonstrate several explicit duality mappings between elasticity of two-dimensional crystals and fracton tensor gauge theories, expanding on recent works by two of the present a…
Fractons from polarons
John Sous, Michael Pretko
Fractons are a type of emergent quasiparticle which cannot move freely in isolation, but can easily move in bound pairs. Similar phenomenology is found in boson-affected hopping mo…
Dynamical scar states in driven fracton systems
Shriya Pai, Michael Pretko
One-dimensional fracton systems can exhibit perfect localization, failing to reach thermal equilibrium under arbitrary local unitary time evolution. We investigate how this nonergo…