Crystalline equivalence principle for topological phases
Crystalline equivalence principle for topological phases
Let be a spatial symmetry group acting on physical space , usually . Let be the homotopy quotient, defined up to homotopy equivalence by
where is contractible with a free action of , and acts diagonally on . Let be the space used to classify -dimensional topological phases.
Crystalline equivalence conjecture. The classification of SPT or SET topological phases in dimensions with spatial symmetry acting on is given by homotopy classes of maps
This extends the internal-symmetry classification to spatial symmetries and underlies the crystalline equivalence principle. For fermionic systems and bosonic systems with orientation-reversing symmetries, the paper says the statement must be modified so that the map becomes a section of a fiber bundle; the supplied text does not resolve the conjecture.
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Dominic V. Else and Ryan Thorngren, “Crystalline topological phases as defect networks”, arXiv:1810.10539 (2019).
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