Two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological orders and their protected gapless edge excitations

@article{Chen2011TwodimensionalST,
  title={Two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological orders and their protected gapless edge excitations},
  author={Xie Chen and Zheng-xin Liu and Xiao-Gang Wen},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2011},
  volume={84},
  pages={235141}
}
Topological insulators in free fermion systems have been well characterized and classified. However, it is not clear in strongly interacting boson or fermion systems what symmetry-protected topological orders exist. In this paper, we present a model in a two-dimensional (2D) interacting spin system with nontrivial onsite Z{sub 2} symmetry-protected topological order. The order is nontrivial because we can prove that the one-dimensional (1D) system on the boundary must be gapless if the symmetry… Expand
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