Published July 1, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

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

  • 1. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)

Description

We study glide protected topological (GSPT) phases of interacting bosons and fermions in three spatial dimensions with 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 (2D) 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 2D surface states without breaking any symmetries. While this framework can be applied to any non-symmorphic SPT phase, we demonstrate it in many examples of GSPT phases including the non-symmorphic topological insulator with 'hourglass fermion' surface states. (paper)

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa769b

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Journal Title
New Journal of Physics
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
[27 p.]
ISSN
1367-2630