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Note on "Experimental Measurement of Quantum Metric Tensor and Related Topological Phase Transition with a Superconducting Qubit"

Quantum Physics 2019-08-20 v1

Abstract

In the paper [X. Tan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210401 (2019)], we have studied the Euler characteristic number χ\chi for a two-band model; However, the calculated χ\chi there is not an integer when the parameter h>1|h|>1 and then may not be considered as a suitable topological number for the system. In this note, we find that the Bloch vectors of the ground state for h>1|h|>1 do not cover the whole Bloch sphere and thus the Euler characteristic number should be effectively associated with the manifold of a disk, rather than a sphere. After taking into account the boundary contribution, we derive the correct Euler characteristic number. Unfortunately, the Euler characteristic number does not change when crossing the critical points h=1|h|=1 and thus can not be used to characterize the topological phase transition of the present model.

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@article{arxiv.1908.06462,
  title  = {Note on "Experimental Measurement of Quantum Metric Tensor and Related Topological Phase Transition with a Superconducting Qubit"},
  author = {Yan-Qing Zhu and Dan-Wei Zhang and Xinsheng Tan and Hai-Feng Yu and Hui Yan and Yang Yu and Shi-Liang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06462},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures