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Climbing the Fusion Tree: Center Ordering and Decoding Hierarchy in Non-Abelian Mixed States
Pablo Sala, Vlad Temkin, Cenke Xu +2
We develop an operational approach to strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (sw-SSB) of a non-Abelian symmetry group G. We formulate it as the decoding task of distinguishin…
Particle-Vortex Duality of Hydrodynamics
Cenke Xu, Matthew P. A. Fisher
Equipped with the recently recognized symmetry structure of mixed states of matter and "strong-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking" (SW-SSB), we develop a quantum particle-vortex du…
Observation of Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Dephased Fermi Gas
Si Wang, Thomas G. Kiely, Dorothee Tell +9
Symmetry-based classification of quantum phases of matter is one of the most foundational organizing principles in physics; however, an analogous framework for mixed, decohered qua…
A Guide to Symmetric Mass Generation in Lattice-QCD
Anna Hasenfratz, Cenke Xu
Symmetric mass generation (SMG) has attracted growing interest in both condensed matter theory and lattice-QCD communities. Here we formulate general criteria for SMG and examine t…
Inequality for Strong-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Fermionic Open Quantum systems
Abhijat Sarma, Cenke Xu
Under decoherence, an initial Gaussian (free-fermion) state evolves into a non-Gaussian mixed state, so the resulting decohered fermionic state is not exactly solvable in general.…
Strong-to-Weak Symmetry Breaking in Open Quantum Systems: From Discrete Particles to Continuum Hydrodynamics
Jacob Hauser, Kaixiang Su, Hyunsoo Ha +6
We explore the onset of spontaneous strong-to-weak symmetry breaking (SW-SSB) under U(1)-symmetric (i.e., charge-conserving) open-system dynamics. We define this phenomenon for qua…