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most citedNon-Invertible Duality Transformation Between SPT and SSB Phases

79 citations · 331 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Decohering Kitaev's Sixteenfold Way: A Holographic Approach

Shuyu Zhang, Linhao Li, Zhen Bi +2

We study anyon decoherence in 2D topological order, with the fermion decoherence in Kitaev's sixteenfold way as explicit examples. The sixteenfold way includes chiral topological p…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Symmetry-Enforced Topological Structures in Quantum Phase Diagrams

Linhao Li, Yuan Yao

We study the topological structure of the quantum phase diagram of gapped systems by identifying the noncontractibility of loops, so-called -families, within the gapped phase…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Gaplessness indicator by topologically trivial twisting operators

Yuan Yao, Linhao Li, Feng-Feng Song

We propose several general necessary conditions for quantum many-body system in one dimension respecting U(1) symmetry to be gapped. We show that the ground-state expectation value…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Mixed-State Topological Phase: Quantized Topological Order Parameter and Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem

Linhao Li, Yuan Yao

We investigate the extension of pure-state symmetry protected topological phases to mixed-state regime with a strong U(1) and a weak symmetries in one-dimensional sp…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Generalized symmetry-protected topological phases in mixed states from gauging dualities

Linhao Li, Zhen Bi, Weiguang Cao

Decoherence in realistic quantum platforms motivates a mixed-state notion of topological phases of matter, including average symmetry-protected topological (ASPT) phases. Alongside…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Matrix Product States for Modulated Symmetries: SPT, LSM, and Beyond

Amogh Anakru, Linhao Li, Sarvesh Srinivasan +1

Matrix product states (MPS) provide a powerful framework for characterizing one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases of matter and for formulating Lieb-Schultz-M…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Exact Quantum Many-Body Scars in 2D Quantum Gauge Models

Yuan Miao, Linhao Li, Hosho Katsura +1

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) serve as important examples of ergodicity-breaking phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Despite recent extensive studies, exact QMBS are rare in d…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 3 cited

Duality viewpoint of noninvertible symmetry protected topological phases

Weiguang Cao, Masahito Yamazaki, Linhao Li

Recent advancements in generalized symmetries have drawn significant attention to gapped phases of matter exhibiting novel symmetries, such as noninvertible symmetries. By leveragi…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 3 cited

Noninvertible Symmetry-Enriched Quantum Critical Point

Linhao Li, Rui-Zhen Huang, Weiguang Cao

Noninvertible symmetry generalizes traditional group symmetries, advancing our understanding of quantum matter, especially one-dimensional gapped quantum systems. In critical latti…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 28 cited

Generating Lattice Non-invertible Symmetries

Weiguang Cao, Linhao Li, Masahito Yamazaki

Lattice non-invertible symmetries have rich fusion structures and play important roles in understanding various exotic topological phases. In this paper, we explore methods to gene…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 7 cited

Generalized Kramers-Wannier Duality from Bilinear Phase Map

Linhao Li, Masaki Oshikawa, Han Yan

We present the bilinear phase map (BPM), a concept that generalizes the Kramers-Wannier (KW) transformation to investigate unconventional gapped phases of qudit spin chains. Encodi…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Anomaly in open quantum systems and its implications on mixed-state quantum phases

Zijian Wang, Linhao Li

In this paper, we develop a systematic approach to characterize the 't Hooft anomaly in open quantum systems. Owing to nontrivial couplings to the environment, symmetries in such s…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 28 cited

Intrinsically/Purely Gapless-SPT from Non-Invertible Duality Transformations

Linhao Li, Masaki Oshikawa, Yunqin Zheng

The Kennedy-Tasaki (KT) transformation was used to construct the gapped symmetry protected topological (SPT) phase from the symmetry breaking phase with open boundary condition, an…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 7 cited

Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem for 1D Quantum Magnets with Antiunitary Translation and Inversion Symmetries

Yuan Yao, Linhao Li, Masaki Oshikawa +1

We study quantum many-body systems in the presence of an exotic antiunitary translation or inversion symmetry involving time reversal. Based on a symmetry-twisting method and spect…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 3 cited

Stability and fine structure of symmetry-enriched quantum criticality in a spin ladder triangular model

Xiao Wang, Linhao Li, Jianda Wu

In this letter, we propose and study a ladder triangular cluster model which possesses a symmetry and an anti-unitary symmetry generated…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 55 cited

Subsystem Non-Invertible Symmetry Operators and Defects

Weiguang Cao, Linhao Li, Masahito Yamazaki +1

We explore non-invertible symmetries in two-dimensional lattice models with subsystem symmetry. We introduce a subsystem -gauging procedure, called the s…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 79 cited

Non-Invertible Duality Transformation Between SPT and SSB Phases

Linhao Li, Masaki Oshikawa, Yunqin Zheng

In 1992, Kennedy and Tasaki constructed a non-local unitary transformation that maps between a spontaneously symmetry breaking phase and the Halda…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 2 cited

Dual topological nonlinear sigma models of theory by dimensional reduction and monopole operators

Zhengzhi Wu, Linhao Li

Nonlinear models (NLSM) with topological terms, i.e., Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) terms, or topological NLSM, are potent descriptions of many critical points and phases beyond the…

quant-ph2022★ 15 cited

Duality viewpoint of criticality

Linhao Li, Yuan Yao

In this work, we study quantum many-body systems which are self-dual under duality transformation connecting different symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases. We provide a geo…

hep-th2022★ 9 cited

Boundary conditions and anomalies of conformal field theories in 1+1 dimensions

Linhao Li, Chang-Tse Hsieh, Yuan Yao +1

We study a relationship between conformally invariant boundary conditions and anomalies of conformal field theories (CFTs) in 1+1 dimensions. For a given CFT with a global symmetry…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 40 cited

Decorated Defect Construction of Gapless-SPT States

Linhao Li, Masaki Oshikawa, Yunqin Zheng

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are one of the simplest, yet nontrivial, gapped systems that go beyond the Landau paradigm. In this work, we study an extension of the n…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 27 cited

Duality, Criticality, Anomaly, and Topology in Quantum Spin-1 Chains

Hong Yang, Linhao Li, Kouichi Okunishi +1

In quantum spin-1 chains, there is a nonlocal unitary transformation known as the Kennedy-Tasaki transformation , which defines a duality between the Haldane phase a…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 24 cited

Fracton Topological Order at Finite Temperature

Xiaoyang Shen, Zhengzhi Wu, Linhao Li +2

As new kinds of stabilizer code models, fracton models have been promising in realizing quantum memory or quantum hard drives. However, it has been shown that the fracton topologic…