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Modulated Gauge Theories and Fracton Behavior in 2D

CMSA EVENTS: CMSA QUANTUM MATTER IN MATH & PHYSICS SEMINAR

When: November 22, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Guilherme Delfino Silva - Boston University

In this talk we investigate deconfined phases of two-dimensional ZN lattice gauge theories associated to spatially modulated symmetries. In order to study the low-energy physics of such modulated gauge theories we propose and explore exactly solvable gapped Hamiltonians, which allow us to fully characterize their low-energy properties at zero temperature. We provide explicit examples and discuss how non-polynomial symmetries, as exponential symmetries, are powerful enough to fully constrain the mobility of isolated excitations.

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