APS -APS March Meeting 2017 - Event - Partial symmetry transformation to compute topological invariants of interacting fermionic SPTs

摘要

We present an approach to define and compute topological invariants of interacting fermionic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, protected by an orientation-reversing symmetry, such as time-reversal or reflection symmetry.The topological invariants are given by partition functions on unoriented spacetime manifoldswhich as we show, can be computed for a given ground state wave function by considering a non-local operation, ``partial'' time-reversal or reflection.As an application of our scheme, we study the $mathbb{Z}_8$ and $mathbb{Z}_{16}$ classification of topological superconductors in one and three dimensions. Finally, we make a bridge between partial time-reversal transformation and the entanglement negativity in fermionic systems.