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arxiv: 2010.15127 · v3 · pith:Z6C4LQSYnew · submitted 2020-10-28 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.mes-hall

Planar p-String Condensation: Chiral Fracton Phases from Fractional Quantum Hall Layers and Beyond

classification ❄️ cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall
keywords modelfractonchiralfractionalhallmechanismp-stringplanar
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We present a coupled-wire construction of a model with chiral fracton topological order. The model combines the known construction of $\nu=1/m$ Laughlin fractional quantum Hall states with a planar p-string condensation mechanism. The bulk of the model supports gapped immobile fracton excitations that generate a hierarchy of mobile composite excitations. Open boundaries of the model are chiral and gapless, and can be used to demonstrate a fractional quantized Hall conductance where fracton composites act as charge carriers in the bulk. The planar p-string mechanism used to construct and analyze the model generalizes to a wide class of models including those based on layers supporting non-Abelian topological order. We describe this generalization and additionally provide concrete lattice-model realizations of the mechanism.

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