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Non-Abelian Hopf-Euler insulators

日程 : 2024年6月26日(水) 10:00 am 〜 場所 : 物性研究所本館6階 第5セミナー室 (A615) 講師 : Morris, Arthur Samuel 所属 : King’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 世話人 : Takashi Oka講演言語 : 英語

Many free-fermion topological phases of matter such as the Chern insulator are characterised by topological quantum numbers assigned to single isolated bands. While such single-band phases are now well understood, intriguing features remain to be explored within topological band theory. I will explain how nodes in real Bloch Hamiltonians carry non-Abelian topological charges which arise from the geometry of the classifying space. Moreover, by braiding these nodes around each other in reciprocal space, it is possible to induce a ‘multi-band’ topological phase, where the two band subspace supporting the nodes is labelled with an integer, the Euler class. Another example of a multi-band topological invariant is the Hopf invariant, which characterises three dimensional complex phases and provides a solid state realisation of the Hopf fibration. Such systems can also host Chern numbers on each coordinate plane within the Brillouin zone; I will describe how the presence of such subdimensional invariants influences the bulk Hopf invariant. Finally, I will discuss a real topological phase in 3D which possesses a bulk Hopf invariant and 2D Euler classes. These systems have nontrivial quantum geometry, and appear to host unusual nodal line structures.

[1] arXiv:2405.17305 (2024)
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[5] Phys. Rev. B 108, 125101 (2023)

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(公開日: 2024年06月25日)