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arXiv 1906.00883cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.mtrl-sci
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周期电路中的4D无自旋拓扑绝缘体

4D spinless topological insulator in a periodic electric circuit

Rui Yu, Y. X. Zhao, Andreas P. Schnyder

摘要:

根据拓扑能带结构的数学分类,在大于3维的空间中存在着许多有趣的拓扑态,它们具有奇异的边界现象和有趣的拓扑响应。虽然这些拓扑状态在凝聚态系统中不可及,但最近的工作表明,合成系统,如光子晶体或电路,可以实现更高维的能带结构。在这里,我们认为,4D无自旋拓扑绝缘体,由于其对称性,特别适合在这些合成系统中实现。我们显式构造了一个二维电路晶格,其共振频谱模拟了四维无自旋拓扑绝缘体。我们进行了详细的数值计算的电路晶格和显示的共振频谱表现出对3D Weyl边界状态,一个标志的非平凡的拓扑结构。具有相同手征性的这些3D Weyl态对受到与$+1$平方的经典时间反演对称性的保护,这是所提出的电路晶格中固有的。我们还讨论了如何在实验中观察到模拟的4D拓扑能带结构。

英文摘要:

According to the mathematical classification of topological band structures, there exist a number of fascinating topological states in dimensions larger than three with exotic boundary phenomena and interesting topological responses. While these topological states are not accessible in condensed matter systems, recent works have shown that synthetic systems, such as photonic crystals or electric circuits, can realize higher-dimensional band structures. Here, we argue that the 4D spinless topological insulator, due to its symmetry properties, is particularly well suited to be implemented in these synthetic systems. We explicitly construct a 2D electric circuit lattice, whose resonance frequency spectrum simulate the 4D spinless topological insulator. We perform detailed numerical calculations of the circuit lattice and show that the resonance frequency spectrum exhibit pairs of 3D Weyl boundary states, a hallmark of the nontrivial topology. These pairs of 3D Weyl states with the same chirality are protected by classical time-reversal symmetry that squares to $+1$, which is inherent in the proposed circuit lattice. We also discuss how the simulated 4D topological band structure can be observed in experiments.

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