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arXiv 2003.05453cond-mat.str-elcond-mat.mes-hallhep-thquant-ph
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拓扑绝缘体间拓扑和边缘态的量子临界性

Topology and edge states survive quantum criticality between topological insulators

Ruben Verresen

摘要:

人们通常认为,当调谐到临界点时,物质拓扑相中的涌现现象就会被破坏。特别是,拓扑保护的边缘状态,理应离域时,批量相关长度发散。我们表明,这是不正确的一般。拓扑绝缘体或超导体的边缘状态保持指数局域化-尽管带隙消失-如果过渡增加拓扑指数。这适用于拓扑分类大于$Z_2$的所有类别,特别是包括陈式绝缘体。此外,这些边缘状态对无序是稳定的,不像拓扑半金属。这一新的现象是解释广义带(或质量)反演-一个统一的观点拓扑绝缘体-动力学反演。在散装边界对应的精神,我们还确定了拓扑不变量的临界点,它采取半整数值和单独的拓扑不同的普遍性类的多临界点。这项工作扩大了拓扑保护和稳定性的范围,表明体能隙可以是不必要的。实验探针和相互作用的稳定性进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

It is often thought that emergent phenomena in topological phases of matter are destroyed when tuning to a critical point. In particular, topologically protected edge states supposedly delocalize when the bulk correlation length diverges. We show that this is not true in general. Edge states of topological insulators or superconductors remain exponentially localized---despite a vanishing band gap---if the transition increases the topological index. This applies to all classes where the topological classification is larger than $Z_2$, notably including Chern insulators. Moreover, these edge states are stable to disorder, unlike in topological semi-metals. This new phenomenon is explained by generalizing band (or mass) inversion---a unifying perspective on topological insulators---to kinetic inversion. In the spirit of the bulk-boundary correspondence, we also identify topological invariants at criticality, which take half-integer values and separate topologically-distinct universality classes by a multi-critical point. This work enlarges the scope of topological protection and stability by showing that bulk energy gaps can be unnecessary. Experimental probes and stability to interactions are discussed.

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