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Conformal Field Theory Ground States as Critical Points of an Entropy Function
Ting-Chun Lin, John McGreevy
We derive an entropy formula satisfied by the ground states of 1+1D conformal field theories. The formula implies that the ground state is the critical point of an entropy function…
Remote detectability from entanglement bootstrap I: Kirby's torus trick
Bowen Shi, Jin-Long Huang, John McGreevy
Remote detectability is often taken as a physical assumption in the study of topologically ordered systems, and it is a central axiom of mathematical frameworks of topological quan…
Generalized Symmetries in Condensed Matter
John McGreevy
Recent advances in our understanding of symmetry in quantum many-body systems offer the possibility of a generalized Landau paradigm that encompasses all equilibrium phases of matt…
Knots and entanglement
Jin-Long Huang, John McGreevy, Bowen Shi
We extend the entanglement bootstrap approach to (3+1)-dimensions. We study knotted excitations of (3+1)-dimensional liquid topological orders and exotic fusion processes of loops.…
Mean string field theory: Landau-Ginzburg theory for 1-form symmetries
Nabil Iqbal, John McGreevy
By analogy with the Landau-Ginzburg theory of ordinary zero-form symmetries, we introduce and develop a Landau-Ginzburg theory of one-form global symmetries, which we call mean str…
Fractonic order in infinite-component Chern-Simons gauge theories
Xiuqi Ma, Wilbur Shirley, Meng Cheng +3
2+1D multi-component gauge theories with a Chern-Simons (CS) term provide a simple and complete characterization of 2+1D Abelian topological orders. In this paper, we extend…