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A many-body marker for three-dimensional topological insulators with inversion symmetry

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-08-06 v3

Abstract

We extend the previously defined many-body marker for two-dimensional Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 topological insulators [I. Gilardoni {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 106}, L161106 (2022)] to distinguish trivial, weak-, and strong-topological insulators in three dimensions, in presence of the inversion symmetry. The marker is written in term of ground-state expectation values of position operators and can be employed to detect topological phases of interacting systems beyond mean-field approximations, e.g., within quantum Monte Carlo techniques. Here, we show that the correct results of the non-interacting limit are reproduced by the many-body marker.

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@article{arxiv.2505.19204,
  title  = {A many-body marker for three-dimensional topological insulators with inversion symmetry},
  author = {Federico Becca and Alberto Parola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19204},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages and 1 figure, a few typos have been corrected