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arXiv 2005.03674cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.str-el
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扩展拓扑带简并的非常规拓扑绝缘体

Unconventional Topological Insulators from Extended Topological Band Degeneracies

Zhongbo Yan

摘要:

实现拓扑绝缘体的一个普遍而美丽的图景是,狄拉克模型的质量项具有包围一个狄拉克点的节面。我们表明,这个几何图片的基础上狄拉克点可以推广到扩展带退化与非平凡的拓扑电荷。由于非平凡的拓扑荷迫使扩展带简并成对地产生或湮灭,当质量的节面包裹一个这样的扩展带简并时,所产生的带隙相必须是拓扑非平凡的,因为它不能在不关闭能隙的情况下被变形为拓扑平凡的原子绝缘体。我们使用节点线携带一个非平凡的$Z_{2}$电荷在三维来说明物理。值得注意的是,由于扩展能带简并的包裹面是不同的,我们发现这种推广可以带来非常规模式的边界态的拓扑绝缘体。

英文摘要:

A general and beautiful picture for the realization of topological insulators is that the mass term of the Dirac model has a nodal surface wrapping one Dirac point. We show that this geometric picture based on Dirac points can be generalized to extended band degeneracies with nontrivial topological charges. As the nontrivial topological charges force the extended band degeneracies to be created or annihilated in pairs, when the nodal surface of mass wraps one such extended band degeneracy, the resulting gapped phase must be topologically nontrivial since it cannot adiabatically be deformed into a topologically trivial atomic insulator without closing the energy gap. We use nodal lines carrying a nontrivial $Z_{2}$ monopole charge in three dimensions to illustrate the physics. Notably, because the wrapping surfaces for an extended band degeneracy are diverse, we find that this generalization can bring topological insulators with unconventional pattern of boundary states.

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