Strong Hilbert space fragmentation and fractons from subsystem and higher-form symmetries

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15889v1
• Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Strong Hilbert space fragmentation and fractons from subsystem and higher-form symmetries
• Authors: Charles Stahl, Oliver Hart, Alexey Khudorozhkov, Rahul Nandkishore,
• Abstract summary: We show that taking strongly fragmented models in one dimension and "lifting" to higher dimensions using subsystem symmetries can yield strongly fragmented dynamics in higher dimensions.<n>This provides a new route to higher-dimensional strong fragmentation, and also a new route to fractonic behavior.
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• Abstract: We introduce a new route to Hilbert space fragmentation in high dimensions leveraging the group-word formalism. We show that taking strongly fragmented models in one dimension and "lifting" to higher dimensions using subsystem symmetries can yield strongly fragmented dynamics in higher dimensions, with subdimensional (e.g., lineonic) excitations. This provides a new route to higher-dimensional strong fragmentation, and also a new route to fractonic behavior. Meanwhile, lifting one-dimensional strongly fragmented models to higher dimensions using higher-form symmetries yields models with topologically robust weak fragmentation. In three or more spatial dimensions, one can also "mix and match" subsystem and higher-form symmetries, leading to canonical fracton models such as X-cube. We speculate that this approach could also yield a new route to non-Abelian fractons. These constructions unify a number of phenomena that have been discussed in the literature, as well as furnishing models with novel properties.

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