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A Framework for Predicting Entanglement Spectra of Gapless Symmetry-Protected Topological States in One Dimension
Wen-Tao Xu, Frank Pollmann, Michael Knap
The concept of gapped symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states has been generalized to gapless SPT (gSPT) states. Similar to gapped SPT states, gSPT states in one dimension exhi…
Tensor-network study of the roughening transition in a (2 + 1)D lattice gauge theory with matter
Wen-Tao Xu, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann
Within the confined phase of (2+1)D lattice gauge theories a roughening transition arises between a weakly confined regime with floppy string excitations and a strongly confined re…
Information-theoretic principle of emergent 1-form symmetries
Yu-Jie Liu, Wen-Tao Xu, Frank Pollmann +1
Higher-form symmetries act on sub-dimensional spatial manifolds of a quantum system. They can emerge as an exact symmetry at low energies even when they are explicitly broken at th…
Quantum Phase Transitions between Symmetry-Enriched Fracton Phases
Julian Boesl, Yu-Jie Liu, Wen-Tao Xu +2
Topologically ordered phases exhibit further complexity in the presence of global symmetries: Their anyonic excitations may exhibit different transformation patterns under these sy…
Finite Correlation Length Scaling of Disorder Parameter at Quantum Criticality
Wen-Tao Xu, Rui-Zhen Huang
The disorder parameter, defined as the expectation value of the symmetry transformation acting on a subsystem, can be used to characterize symmetric phases as an analogy to detecti…
Critical behavior of Fredenhagen-Marcu string order parameters at topological phase transitions with emergent higher-form symmetries
Wen-Tao Xu, Frank Pollmann, Michael Knap
A nonlocal string order parameter detecting topological order and deconfinement has been proposed by Fredenhagen and Marcu (FM). However, due to the lack of exact internal symmetri…
Entanglement Properties of Gauge Theories from Higher-Form Symmetries
Wen-Tao Xu, Tibor Rakovszky, Michael Knap +1
We explore the relationship between higher-form symmetries and entanglement properties in discrete lattice gauge theories, which can exhibit both topologically ordered phases and h…