Rational indices for quantum ground state sectors

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  • Sven Bachmann
  • Alexander Fransiscus J Bols
  • Wojciech De Roeck
  • Martin Fraas
We consider charge transport for interacting many-body systems with a gapped ground state subspace that is finitely degenerate and topologically ordered. To any locality-preserving, charge-conserving unitary that preserves the ground state space, we associate an index that is an integer multiple of 1/𝑝, where 𝑝 is the ground state degeneracy. We prove that the index is additive under composition of unitaries. This formalism gives rise to several applications: fractional quantum Hall conductance, a fractional Lieb–Schultz–Mattis (LSM) theorem that generalizes the standard LSM to systems where the translation-invariance is broken, and the interacting generalization of the Avron–Dana–Zak relation between the Hall conductance and the filling factor.
Original languageEnglish
Article number011901
JournalJournal of Mathematical Physics
Volume62
Issue number1
Number of pages21
ISSN0022-2488
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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