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arxiv: 1604.02145 · v2 · pith:YGXKFOLAnew · submitted 2016-04-07 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · math-ph· math.MP· quant-ph

Discrete spin structures and commuting projector models for 2d fermionic symmetry protected topological phases

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We construct exactly solved commuting projector Hamiltonian lattice models for all known 2+1d fermionic symmetry protected topological phases (SPTs) with on-site unitary symmetry group $G_f = G \times \mathbb{Z}_2^f$, where $G$ is finite and $\mathbb{Z}_2^f$ is the fermion parity symmetry. In particular, our models transcend the class of group supercohomology models, which realize some, but not all, fermionic SPTs in 2+1d. A natural ingredient in our construction is a discrete form of the spin structure of the 2d spatial surface $M$ on which our model is defined, namely a `Kasteleyn' orientation of a certain graph associated with the lattice. As a special case, our construction yields commuting projector models for all $8$ members of the $\mathbb{Z}_8$ classification of 2d fermionic SPTs with $G = \mathbb{Z}_2$.

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