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<p>We study defects in symmetry breaking phases, such as domain walls, vortices, and hedgehogs. In particular, we focus on the localized gapless excitations which sometimes occur at the cores of these objects. These are topologically protected by an ’t Hooft anomaly. We classify different symmetry breaking phases in terms of the anomalies of these defects, and relate them to the anomaly of the broken symmetry by an anomaly-matching formula. We also derive the obstruction to the existence of a symmetry breaking phase with a local defect. We obtain these results using a long exact sequence of groups of invertible field theories, which we call the “symmetry breaking long exact sequence” (SBLES). The mathematical backbone of the SBLES is studied in a companion paper [1]. Our work further develops the theory of higher Berry phase and its bulk-boundary correspondence, and serves as a new computational tool for classifying symmetry protected topological phases.</p>

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A long exact sequence in symmetry breaking: order parameter constraints, defect anomaly-matching, and higher Berry phases

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    2025年7月1日

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  • Arun Debray,
  • Sanath K. Devalapurkar,
  • Cameron Krulewski,
  • Yu Leon Liu,
  • Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj,
  • Ryan Thorngren

摘要

We study defects in symmetry breaking phases, such as domain walls, vortices, and hedgehogs. In particular, we focus on the localized gapless excitations which sometimes occur at the cores of these objects. These are topologically protected by an ’t Hooft anomaly. We classify different symmetry breaking phases in terms of the anomalies of these defects, and relate them to the anomaly of the broken symmetry by an anomaly-matching formula. We also derive the obstruction to the existence of a symmetry breaking phase with a local defect. We obtain these results using a long exact sequence of groups of invertible field theories, which we call the “symmetry breaking long exact sequence” (SBLES). The mathematical backbone of the SBLES is studied in a companion paper [1]. Our work further develops the theory of higher Berry phase and its bulk-boundary correspondence, and serves as a new computational tool for classifying symmetry protected topological phases.