Time reversal invariant gapped boundaries of the double semion state
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Fiona Burnell,1 Xie Chen,2,3 Alexei Kitaev,2 Max Metlitski,4 and Ashvin Vishwanath3,5 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA 2Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA 4Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 5Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (Received 30 March 2016; published 30 June 2016)
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