Fracton phases of matter

M Pretko, X Chen, Y You - International Journal of Modern Physics …, 2020 - World Scientific
Fractons are a new type of quasiparticle which are immobile in isolation, but can often move
by forming bound states. Fractons are found in a variety of physical settings, such as spin …

Fractons

RM Nandkishore, M Hermele - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Fracton phases constitute a new class of quantum state of matter. They are characterized by
excitations that exhibit restricted mobility, being either immobile under local Hamiltonian …

Fracton hydrodynamics

A Gromov, A Lucas, RM Nandkishore - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We introduce new classes of hydrodynamic theories inspired by the recently discovered
fracton phases of quantum matter. Fracton phases are characterized by elementary …

Subsystem symmetry protected topological order

Y You, T Devakul, FJ Burnell, SL Sondhi - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
In this work, we introduce a new type of topological order that is protected by subsystem
symmetries that act on lower-dimensional subsets of lattice many-body system, eg, along …

The fracton gauge principle

M Pretko - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A powerful mechanism for constructing gauge theories is to start from a theory with a global
symmetry, then apply the “gauge principle,” which demands that this symmetry hold locally …

Fracton models on general three-dimensional manifolds

W Shirley, K Slagle, Z Wang, X Chen - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Fracton models, a collection of exotic gapped lattice Hamiltonians recently discovered in
three spatial dimensions, contain some “topological” features: They support fractional bulk …

Breakdown of hydrodynamics below four dimensions in a fracton fluid

P Glorioso, J Guo, JF Rodriguez-Nieva, A Lucas - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrodynamics is a universal effective theory that describes the thermalization of chaotic
many-body systems, and depends only on the symmetries of the underlying theory. Although …

Foliated fracton order from gauging subsystem symmetries

W Shirley, K Slagle, X Chen - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
Based on several previous examples, we summarize explicitly the general procedure to
gauge models with subsystem symmetries, which are symmetries with generators that have …

Goldstone bosons and fluctuating hydrodynamics with dipole and momentum conservation

P Glorioso, X Huang, J Guo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We develop a Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory describing the
hydrodynamics of a fluid with conserved charge and dipole moments, together with …

Fracton topological order from the Higgs and partial-confinement mechanisms of rank-two gauge theory

H Ma, M Hermele, X Chen - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Fractons are gapped pointlike excitations in d= 3 topological ordered phases whose motion
is constrained. They have been discovered in several gapped models but a unifying …