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Glide-symmetric magnetic topological crystalline insulators with inversion symmetry

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-10-14 v2

Abstract

It is known that three-dimensional magnetic systems with glide symmetry can be characterized by a Z2Z_2 topological invariant together with the Chern number associated with the normal vector of the glide plane, and they are expressed in terms of integrals of the Berry curvature. In the present paper, we study the fate of this topological invariant when inversion symmetry is added while time-reversal symmetry is not enforced. There are two ways to add inversion symmetry, leading to space groups No.~13 and No.~14. In space group No.~13, we find that the glide-Z2Z_2 invariant is expressed solely from the irreducible representations at high-symmetry points in kk-space. It constitutes the Z2×Z2\mathbb{Z}_2\times \mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry-based indicator for this space group, together with another Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 representing the Chern number modulo 2. In space group No.~14, we find that the symmetry-based indicator Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 is given by a combination of the glide-Z2Z_2 invariant and the Chern number. Thus, in space group No.~14, from the irreducible representations at high-symmetry points we can only know possible combinations of the glide-Z2Z_2 invariant and the Chern number, but in order to know each value of these topological numbers, we should calculate integrals of the Berry curvature. Finally, we show that in both cases, the symmetry-based indicator Z4\mathbb{Z}_4 for inversion symmetric systems leading to the higher-order topological insulators is directly related with the glide-Z2Z_2 invariant and the Chern number. As an independent approach to these results, we also construct all invariants from the layer construction for these space groups, and we show complete agreement with the above results for the topological invariants constructed from kk-space topology.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05153,
  title  = {Glide-symmetric magnetic topological crystalline insulators with inversion symmetry},
  author = {Heejae Kim and Ken Shiozaki and Shuichi Murakami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05153},
  year   = {2019}
}