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    Classification of Symmetry-Protected Phases for Interacting Fermions in Two Dimensions

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    Recently, it has been shown that two-dimensional bosonic symmetry-protected topological(SPT) phases with on-site unitary symmetry GG can be completely classified by the group cohomology class H3(G,U(1))H^3(G, \mathrm{U}(1)). Later, group super-cohomology class was proposed as a partial classification for SPT phases of interacting fermions. In this work, we revisit this problem based on the mathematical framework of GG-extension of unitary braided tensor category(UBTC) theory. We first reproduce the partial classifications given by group super-cohomology, then we show that with an additional H1(G,Z2)H^1(G, \mathbb{Z}_2) structure, a complete classification of SPT phases for two-dimensional interacting fermion systems for a total symmetry group G×Z2fG\times\mathbb{Z}_2^f can be achieved. We also discuss the classification of interacting fermionic SPT phases protected by time-reversal symmetry.Comment: references added; published versio
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