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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

We investigate (1+1)d symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetries. We emphasize that the UV description of an anomaly-free fusion category symmetry must include the fiber functor, giving rise to a local symmetry action, a charge category and a trivial phase. We construct an "onsite'' matrix-product-operator (MPO) version of the Hopf algebra symmetry operators in a lattice model with tensor-product Hilbert space. In particular, we propose a systematic framework for classifying and constructing SPTs with non-invertible symmetries. An SPT phase corresponds to a Q-system in the charge category, such that the Q-system becomes a matrix algebra when the symmetry is forgotten. As an example, we provide an explicit microscopic realization of all three

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Time:

03Dec
Dec 3rd 2025
13:00 to 14:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

Speaker:

Xinping Yang (Yale University)

Series:

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series