A generalized boundary condition applied to Lieb-Schultz-Mattis type ingappabilities and many-body Chern numbers
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2020-07-15 v4 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We introduce a new boundary condition which renders the flux-insertion argument for the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis type theorems in two or higher dimensions free from the specific choice of system sizes. It also enables a formulation of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis type theorems in arbitrary dimensions in terms of the anomaly in field theories of dimensions with a bulk correspondence as a BF-theory in 2+1 dimensions. Furthermore, we apply the anomaly-based formulation to the constraints on a half-filled spinless fermion on a square lattice with flux, utilizing time-reversal, the magnetic translation and on-site internal symmetries. This demonstrates the role of time-reversal anomaly on the ingappabilities of a lattice model.
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@article{arxiv.1906.11662,
title = {A generalized boundary condition applied to Lieb-Schultz-Mattis type ingappabilities and many-body Chern numbers},
author = {Yuan Yao and Masaki Oshikawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11662},
year = {2020}
}
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