What Symmetries are Preserved by a Fermion Boundary State?

What Symmetries are Preserved by a Fermion Boundary State?

Usually, a left-moving fermion in d=1+1 dimensions reflects off a boundary to become a right-moving fermion. This means that, while overall fermion parity $(-1)^F$ is conserved, chiral fermion parity for left- and right-movers individually is not. Remarkably, there are boundary conditions that do pr...

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