Peeling off Abelian Anyons and Proliferation Transitions
Abstract
We study the invertible one-form global symmetry of a (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT). A universal description of this symmetry ``peels off'' all the Abelian anyons from the rest of the TQFT. This allows us to study this symmetry and some of its consequences, independently of the details of the rest of the system. We then describe these Abelian anyons using U(1) gauge fields with Chern-Simons terms and couple them to a scalar field, thus constructing a particular non-topological theory. This new theory, our transition field theory, exhibits a phase transition from the original TQFT to another phase. The latter is either gapless or another TQFT. This discussion generalizes and extends our earlier work (arXiv:2603.00245). In particular, we give a more detailed description of the global symmetries and their fates in the various phases.
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BibTeX
@misc{cheng2026peeling,
title = {{Peeling off Abelian Anyons and Proliferation Transitions}},
author = {Meng Cheng and Nathan Seiberg},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.04704},
eprint = {2610.04704},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04704},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Peeling off Abelian Anyons and Proliferation Transitions
AU - Meng Cheng
AU - Nathan Seiberg
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/03
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.04704
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04704
AB - We study the invertible one-form global symmetry of a (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT). A universal description of this symmetry ``peels off'' all the Abelian anyons from the rest of the TQFT. This allows us to study this symmetry and some of its consequences, independently of the details of the rest of the system. We then describe these Abelian anyons using U(1) gauge fields with Chern-Simons terms and couple them to a scalar field, thus constructing a particular non-topological theory. This new theory, our transition field theory, exhibits a phase transition from the original TQFT to another phase. The latter is either gapless or another TQFT. This discussion generalizes and extends our earlier work (arXiv:2603.00245). In particular, we give a more detailed description of the global symmetries and their fates in the various phases.
ER -