Glide-symmetric topological crystalline insulator phase in a nonprimitive lattice
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 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