6 papers
Extraordinary Surface Criticalities for Interacting Fermions
Oleksandr Diatlyk, Zimo Sun, Yifan Wang
Interacting fermions exhibit a rich landscape of surface defects and associated critical phenomena. We investigate novel surface critical behavior in the three-dimensional Gross-Ne…
Complex Wannier centers and drifting Wannier functions in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians
Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro, Yifan Wang, Wladimir A. Benalcazar
The extension of topological band theory to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with line energy gaps remains largely unexplored, despite early indications of rich underlying physics. In th…
Gauging Non-Invertible Symmetries: Topological Interfaces and Generalized Orbifold Groupoid in 2d QFT
Oleksandr Diatlyk, Conghuan Luo, Yifan Wang +1
Gauging is a powerful operation on symmetries in quantum field theory (QFT), as it connects distinct theories and also reveals hidden structures in a given theory. We initiate a sy…
Defect Fusion and Casimir Energy in Higher Dimensions
Oleksandr Diatlyk, Himanshu Khanchandani, Fedor K. Popov +1
We study the operator algebra of extended conformal defects in more than two spacetime dimensions. Such algebra structure encodes the combined effect of multiple impurities on phys…
Factorizing Defects from Generalized Pinning Fields
Fedor K. Popov, Yifan Wang
We introduce generalized pinning fields in conformal field theory that model a large class of critical impurities at large distance, enriching the familiar universality classes. We…
Surprises in the Ordinary: Invariant Surface Defect in the -expansion
Oleksandr Diatlyk, Zimo Sun, Yifan Wang
We study an invariant surface defect in the Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory (CFT) in dimensions. This defect is defined by mass deformation on a two-dimensiona…