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arXiv 0905.2029cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.str-el
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拓扑绝缘体和超导体的分类

Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors

Andreas P. Schnyder, Shinsei Ryu, Akira Furusaki, Andreas W. W. Ludwig

摘要:

提出了一种拓扑绝缘体和超导体的详尽分类方案。拓扑绝缘体(超导体)的关键性质是在拓扑平凡状态和拓扑非平凡状态之间的界面/边界处出现无间隙自由度。我们的方法包括在减少的问题分类拓扑绝缘体(超导体)在d空间维度的问题,安德森局域化在(d-1)维边界的系统。我们发现,在每个空间维度上,恰好有五种不同的拓扑绝缘体(超导体)。给定的拓扑绝缘体(超导体)内的不同拓扑扇区可以用整数绕组数或Z_2量来标记。五种拓扑绝缘体之一是d=2的“量子自旋霍尔”(或:Z_2拓扑)绝缘体,以及它在d=3维中的推广。对于每个维度d,五个拓扑绝缘体对应于十多年前由Altland和Zirnbauer在无序系统的上下文中引入的哈密顿算子的十个通用对称类中的五个的某个子集(其概括了三个众所周知的“Wigner-Dyson”对称类)。

英文摘要:

An exhaustive classification scheme of topological insulators and superconductors is presented. The key property of topological insulators (superconductors) is the appearance of gapless degrees of freedom at the interface/boundary between a topologically trivial and a topologically non-trivial state. Our approach consists in reducing the problem of classifying topological insulators (superconductors) in d spatial dimensions to the problem of Anderson localization at a (d-1) dimensional boundary of the system. We find that in each spatial dimension there are precisely five distinct classes of topological insulators (superconductors). The different topological sectors within a given topological insulator (superconductor) can be labeled by an integer winding number or a Z_2 quantity. One of the five topological insulators is the 'quantum spin Hall' (or: Z_2 topological) insulator in d=2, and its generalization in d=3 dimensions. For each dimension d, the five topological insulators correspond to a certain subset of five of the ten generic symmetry classes of Hamiltonians introduced more than a decade ago by Altland and Zirnbauer in the context of disordered systems (which generalizes the three well known "Wigner-Dyson'' symmetry classes).

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