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Higher-order bulk-boundary correspondence for topological crystalline phases

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-01-24 v2

Abstract

We study the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological crystalline phases, where the crystalline symmetry is an order-two (anti)symmetry, unitary or antiunitary. We obtain a formulation of the bulk-boundary correspondence in terms of a subgroup sequence of the bulk classifying groups, which uniquely determines the topological classification of the boundary states. This formulation naturally includes higher-order topological phases as well as topologically nontrivial bulk systems without topologically protected boundary states. The complete bulk and boundary classification of higher-order topological phases with an additional order-two symmetry or antisymmetry is contained in this work.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02598,
  title  = {Higher-order bulk-boundary correspondence for topological crystalline phases},
  author = {Luka Trifunovic and Piet W. Brouwer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02598},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Revised & considerably extended version