摘 要:Topological orders are gapped quantum liquid states without any symmetry. Most of their properties can be captured by investigating topological defects and excitations of various dimensions. Topological defects in n dimensions naturally form a (weak) n-category. In particular, anomalous topological order (boundary theory) is described by fusion n-category and anomaly-free topological ord...
AbstractGeneralized symmetries in two-dimensional spacetime are described by the algebraic structure of topological line defects. In particular, when the number of topological lines is finite, their algebraic structure is described by a fusion category or a superfusion category depending on whether the system is bosonic or fermionic. For this reason, finite generalized symmetries in 1+1 dimensi...