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20242026
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11 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Gapless Phases in (2+1)d with Non-Invertible Symmetries

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Yuhan Gai, Sheng-Jie Huang +4

The study of gapless phases with categorical (or so-called non-invertible) symmetries is a formidable task, in particular in higher than two space-time dimensions. In this paper we…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Hasse Diagrams for Gapless SPT and SSB Phases with Non-Invertible Symmetries

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Daniel Pajer, Sakura Schafer-Nameki +1

We discuss (1+1)d gapless phases with non-invertible global symmetries, also referred to as categorical symmetries. This includes gapless phases showing properties analogous to gap…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Lattice Models for Phases and Transitions with Non-Invertible Symmetries

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Lea E. Bottini, Sakura Schafer-Nameki +1

Non-invertible categorical symmetries have emerged as a powerful tool to uncover new beyond-Landau phases of matter, both gapped and gapless, along with second order phase transiti…

math.CT2025

Fusion 3-Categories for Duality Defects

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Thibault Décoppet, Thibault Décoppet +2

We study the fusion 3-categorical symmetries for quantum theories in (3+1)d with self-duality defects. Such defects have been realized physically by half-space gauging in theories…

hep-th2025

The Club Sandwich: Gapless Phases and Phase Transitions with Non-Invertible Symmetries

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Lea E. Bottini, Daniel Pajer +1

We provide a generalization of the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) framework to characterize phase transitions and gapless phases with categorical symmetries. The centra…

hep-th2025

Gapped Phases in (2+1)d with Non-Invertible Symmetries: Part II

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Apoorv Tiwari +1

We use the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) to systematically characterize gapped phases in 2+1 dimensions with categorical symmetries. The SymTFTs that we consider are (…