Symmetry as shadow of topological order
PIRSA ID:
21030001
Event Type:
Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Quantum Matter
End date:
Speaker(s):
- Xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics
Recently, the notion of symmetry has been extended from 0-symmetry described by group to higher symmetry described by higher group. In this talk, we show that the notion of symmetry can be generalized even further to "algebraic higher symmetry". Then we will describe an even more general point of view of symmetry, which puts the (generalized) symmetry charges and topological excitations at equal footing: symmetry can be viewed gravitational anomaly, or symmetry can be viewed as shadow topological order in one higher dimension.