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Glide-symmetric topological crystalline insulator phase in a nonprimitive lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-11-17 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study the topological crystalline insulator phase protected by the glide symmetry, which is characterized by the Z2 topological number. In the present paper, we derive a formula for the Z2 topological invariant protected by glide symmetry in a nonprimitive lattice, from that in a primitive lattice. We establish a formula for the glide-Z2 invariant for the space group No. 9 with glide symmetry in the base-centered lattice, by folding the Brillouin zone into that of the primitive lattice where the formula for the glide-Z2 invariant is known. The formula is written in terms of integrals of the Berry curvatures and Berry phases in the k-space. We also derive a formula of the glide-Z2 invariantwhen the inversion symmetry is added, and the space group becomes No. 15. This reduces the formula into the Fu-Kane-like formula, expressed in terms of the irreducible representations at high-symmetry points in kk space. We also construct these topological invariants by the layer-construction approach, and the results completely agree with those from the k-space approach.

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@article{arxiv.2006.03607,
  title  = {Glide-symmetric topological crystalline insulator phase in a nonprimitive lattice},
  author = {Heejae Kim and Shuichi Murakami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03607},
  year   = {2020}
}

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21 pages, 4 figures