Catalog of noninteracting tight-binding models with two energy bands in one dimension
Abstract
We classify Hermitian tight-binding models describing noninteracting electrons on a one-dimensional periodic lattice with two energy bands. To do this, we write a generalized Rice-Mele model with two orbitals per unit cell, including all possible complex-valued long-range hoppings consistent with Hermicity. We then apply different forms of time-reversal, charge-conjugation and chiral symmetry in order to constrain the parameters, resulting in an array of possible models in different symmetry classes. For each symmetry class, we define a single, canonical form of the Hamiltonian and identify models that are related to the canonical form by an off-diagonal unitary transformation in the atomic basis. The models have either symmorphic or nonsymmorphic nonspatial symmetries (time , chiral and charge-conjugation). The nonsymmorphic category separates into two types of state of matter: an insulator with a topological index in the absence of nonsymmorphic time-reversal symmetry or, in the presence of nonsymmorphic time-reversal symmetry, a metallic state. The latter is an instance of Kramer's degeneracy with one degeneracy point in the Brillouin zone as opposed to no degeneracy points in symmorphic systems with and two in symmorphic systems with .
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@article{arxiv.2303.06973,
title = {Catalog of noninteracting tight-binding models with two energy bands in one dimension},
author = {Edward McCann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06973},
year = {2023}
}
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27 pages, 12 figures