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arXiv 2012.12909cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.dis-nn
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连续旋转对称性保护的非晶拓扑相

Amorphous topological phases protected by continuous rotation symmetry

Helene Spring, Anton R. Akhmerov, Daniel Varjas

摘要:

当样品的边界与晶体的高对称平面之一不对齐时,通过反射对称性对拓扑表面态的保护失效。我们证明,这种限制被删除在无定形拓扑材料,其中的哈密顿量是不变的平均反射下,由于连续旋转对称的任何轴。虽然由非晶结构引起的局部无序削弱了拓扑保护,但我们证明了边缘仍然不受本地化的保护。为了对这些相进行分类,我们对所有可能的二维对称类进行了系统的搜索,并构建了实现每个拓扑相的示例模型。最后,我们计算这些阶段的拓扑不变量作为沿子午线的球面布里渊区的非晶哈密顿积分。

英文摘要:

Protection of topological surface states by reflection symmetry breaks down when the boundary of the sample is misaligned with one of the high symmetry planes of the crystal. We demonstrate that this limitation is removed in amorphous topological materials, where the Hamiltonian is invariant on average under reflection over any axis due to continuous rotation symmetry. While the local disorder caused by the amorphous structure weakens the topological protection, we demonstrate that the edge remains protected from localization. In order to classify such phases we perform a systematic search over all the possible symmetry classes in two dimensions and construct the example models realizing each of the proposed topological phases. Finally, we compute the topological invariant of these phases as an integral along a meridian of the spherical Brillouin zone of an amorphous Hamiltonian.

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