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

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… Click to show full abstract

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.

Keywords: protected topological; gspt phases; surface; glide symmetry; non symmorphic

Journal Title: New Journal of Physics
Year Published: 2017

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