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Category and Topological Order Seminar
Category and Topological Order Seminar
Enforced symmetry breaking by invertible topological order
Enforced symmetry breaking by invertible topological order
Organizer
Speaker
Chenjie Wang
Time
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Venue
1131
Online
Tencent 660 7557 3050
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Abstract
It is well known that two-dimensional Chern insulator must break the time reversal symmetry, as manifested by the appearance of chiral edge modes on an open boundary. Such an incompatibility between topological order and symmetry can occur more generally. In this talk, I will discuss enforced breaking of general discrete internal symmetries by a class of fermionic topological orders, namely invertible topological orders. General criteria and examples will be discussed for 0D, 1D and 2D systems. These results rely on a general exploration of symmetry-enriched invertible topological orders and quantum anomaly.
Speaker Intro
Chenjie Wang is currently an Associate Professor at University of Hong Kong. He graduatedfrom University of Science and Technology of China, and obtained his PhD in physics from BrownUniversity in 2012. He has been working on transport in quantum Hall systems and theories ofstrongly correlated topological phases. His recent research interests include theorie of topologicalphases of matter, quantum critical phenomena and localization physics.