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关于物质拓扑相的K-理论分类

On the K-theoretic classification of topological phases of matter

Guo Chuan Thiang

摘要:

我们提出了一个严格的和完全一致的$K$理论框架,用于研究自由费米子,如拓扑绝缘体的带隙拓扑相位。它利用并得益于算子$K$理论中的强大技术。从对称性的观点,特别是从时间反演、电荷共轭和磁平移的观点来看,算子$K$ -理论比交换拓扑理论更一般和自然。我们的方法是独立于模型的,只有对称性的动力学数据,其中可能包括有关无序的信息,是必需的。该数据被完全编码在合适的$C^*$ -超代数中。从表示论的角度来看,相容间隙相位分类的超表示群的对称代数。与现有文献相反,我们不使用$K$理论在绝对意义上对相位进行分类,而只是相对于一些任意的参考。$K$ -理论群最好被认为是带隙相位的同伦类之间的障碍群。除了纠正各种不一致的现有文献中的$K$理论分类方案,我们的治疗具有概念上的简单,在其治疗的所有对称性平等。Kitaev周期表是我们框架内的一个特例,我们证明了周期性和尺寸变化的现象对无序和磁场是强大的。

英文摘要:

We present a rigorous and fully consistent $K$-theoretic framework for studying gapped topological phases of free fermions such as topological insulators. It utilises and profits from powerful techniques in operator $K$-theory. From the point of view of symmetries, especially those of time reversal, charge conjugation, and magnetic translations, operator $K$-theory is more general and natural than the commutative topological theory. Our approach is model-independent, and only the symmetry data of the dynamics, which may include information about disorder, is required. This data is completely encoded in a suitable $C^*$-superalgebra. From a representation-theoretic point of view, symmetry-compatible gapped phases are classified by the super-representation group of this symmetry algebra. Contrary to existing literature, we do not use $K$-theory to classify phases in an absolute sense, but only relative to some arbitrary reference. $K$-theory groups are better thought of as groups of obstructions between homotopy classes of gapped phases. Besides rectifying various inconsistencies in the existing literature on $K$-theory classification schemes, our treatment has conceptual simplicity in its treatment of all symmetries equally. The Periodic Table of Kitaev is exhibited as a special case within our framework, and we prove that the phenomena of periodicity and dimension shifts are robust against disorder and magnetic fields.

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