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无时间约束对称的无自旋拓扑绝缘体

Spinless Topological Insulators without Time-Reversal Symmetry

A. Alexandradinata, Chen Fang, Matthew J. Gilbert, B. Andrei Bernevig

摘要:

我们探索了32个晶体学点群,并确定了具有强大表面模式的物质的拓扑相。对于n = 3,4和6的C_{nv}群,我们发现了第一个已知的没有自旋轨道耦合的3D拓扑绝缘体,并且具有仅由点群保护的表面模式,即,不需要时间反演对称性。为了描述这些C_{nv}系统,我们引入了(a)半镜手性的概念:一个整数不变量的特征半镜平面在三维布里渊区,和(b)弯曲陈数:传统的TKNN不变量广义弯曲二维流形。我们发现一个外尔半金属相中间体两个间隙阶段具有不同的减半手征。

英文摘要:

We explore the 32 crystallographic point groups and identify topological phases of matter with robust surface modes. For n =3,4 and 6 of the C_{nv} groups, we find the first-known 3D topological insulators without spin-orbit coupling, and with surface modes that are protected only by point groups, i.e., not needing time-reversal symmetry. To describe these C_{nv} systems, we introduce the notions of (a) a halved mirror chirality: an integer invariant which characterizes half-mirror-planes in the 3D Brillouin zone, and (b) a bent Chern number: the traditional TKNN invariant generalized to bent 2D manifolds. We find that a Weyl semimetallic phase intermediates two gapped phases with distinct halved chiralities.

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