activity
20182020
collaborators

9 papers

cond-mat.str-el2020

Screw dislocations in the X-cube fracton model

Nandagopal Manoj, Kevin Slagle, Wilbur Shirley +1

The X-cube model, a prototypical gapped fracton model, has been shown to have a foliation structure. That is, inside the 3+1D model, there are hidden layers of 2+1D gapped topologi…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Fractonic order and emergent fermionic gauge theory

Wilbur Shirley

We consider fermionic systems in which fermion parity is conserved within rigid subsystems, and describe an explicit procedure for gauging such subsystem fermion parity symmetries…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Strong planar subsystem symmetry-protected topological phases and their dual fracton orders

Trithep Devakul, Wilbur Shirley, Juven Wang

We classify subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) phases in D protected by planar subsystem symmetries, which are dual to abelian fracton topological orders. We dist…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Twisted foliated fracton phases

Wilbur Shirley, Kevin Slagle, Xie Chen

In the study of three-dimensional gapped models, two-dimensional gapped states should be considered as a free resource. This is the basic idea underlying the notion of `foliated fr…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Foliated fracton order in the Majorana checkerboard model

Taige Wang, Wilbur Shirley, Xie Chen

We establish the presence of foliated fracton order in the Majorana checkerboard model. In particular, we describe an entanglement renormalization group transformation which utiliz…

cond-mat.str-el2018

Foliated fracton order in the checkerboard model

Wilbur Shirley, Kevin Slagle, Xie Chen

In this work, we show that the checkerboard model exhibits the phenomenon of foliated fracton order. We introduce a renormalization group transformation for the model that utilizes…