Gauging non-invertible symmetries on the lattice
Sahand Seifnashri, Shu-Heng Shao, Xinping Yang
Abstract
We provide a general prescription for gauging finite non-invertible symmetries in 1+1d lattice Hamiltonian systems. Our primary example is the Rep(D _8 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi/> <mml:mn>8</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> ) fusion category generated by the Kennedy-Tasaki transformation, which is the simplest anomaly-free non-invertible symmetry on a spin chain of qubits. We explicitly compute its lattice F-symbols and illustrate our prescription for a particular (non-maximal) gauging of this symmetry. In our gauging procedure, we introduce two qubits around each link, playing the role of “gauge fields” for the non-invertible symmetry, and impose novel Gauss’s laws. Similar to the Kramers-Wannier transformation for gauging an ordinary \mathbb{Z}_2 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:msub> <mml:mstyle mathvariant="double-struck"> <mml:mi>ℤ</mml:mi> </mml:mstyle> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> , our gauging can be summarized by a gauging map, which is part of a larger, continuous non-invertible cosine symmetry.