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arxiv: 1701.00784 · v2 · pith:W2I56JRTnew · submitted 2017-01-03 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el

Classification and surface anomaly of glide symmetry protected topological phases in three dimensions

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keywords phasessurfacetopologicalglidegsptsymmetriesdimensionsnon-symmorphic
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We study glide protected topological (GSPT) phases of interacting bosons and fermions in three spatial dimensions certain on-site symmetries. They are crystalline SPT phases, which are distinguished from a trivial product state only in the presence of non-symmorphic glide symmetry. We classify these GSPT phases with various on-site symmetries such as $U(1)$ and time reversal, and show that they can all be understood by stacking and coupling two-dimensional short-range-entangled phases in a glide-invariant way. Using such a coupled layer construction we study the anomalous surface topological orders of these GSPT phases, which gap out the two-dimensional surface states without breaking any symmetries. This framework is demonstrated in many examples, including the non-symmorphic topological insulator with "hourglass fermion" surface states.

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