2025/02/28 by Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi, Hsin, Po-Shen +3 · 1 voice · 5 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.00105
Anomalies of global symmetries provide important information on the quantum dynamics. We show the dynamical constraints can be organized into three classes: genuine anomalies, fractional topological responses, and integer responses that can be realized in symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. Coset symmetry can be present in many physical systems including quantum spin liquids, and the coset symmetry can be a non-invertible symmetry. We introduce twists in coset symmetries, which modify the fusion rules and the generalized Frobenius-Schur indicators. We call such coset symmetries twisted coset symmetries, and they are labeled by the quadruple (G,K,ωD+1,αD) in D spacetime dimensions where G is a group and K⊂ G is a discrete subgroup, ωD+1 is a (D+1)-cocycle for group G, and αD is a D-cochain for group K. We present several examples with twisted coset symmetries using lattice models and field theory, including both gapped and gapless systems (such as gapless symmetry-protected topological phases). We investigate the anomalies of general twisted coset symmetry, which presents obstructions to realizing the coset symmetry in (gapped) symmetry-protected topological phases. We show that finite coset symmetry G/K becomes anomalous when G cannot be expressed as the bicrossed product G=H\Join K, and such anomalous coset symmetry leads to symmetry-enforced gaplessness in generic spacetime dimensions. We illustrate examples of anomalous coset symmetries with A5/ℤ2 symmetry, with realizations in lattice models.