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Three dimensional two-band Floquet topological insulator with $Z_2$ index

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-02-18 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present a class of three dimensional (3D) two-band Floquet topological insulators constructed from two-dimensional Floquet topological insulators with a ZZ topological index. It is shown that the 3D two-band Floquet topological insulator has a Z2Z_2 topological index, whose value can be obtained by numerical calculations or by using a relation to the winding number. The classification of the 3D Z2Z_2 Floquet topological insulator, however, cannot be attributed to the stable homotopy groups. Thus, it is an example outside the proposed K-theory classifications of Floquet topological insulators. We also analyze the edge modes of the 3D Z2Z_2 Floquet topological insulator and find the parity of the number of edge modes reflects the bulk Z2Z_2 index.

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@article{arxiv.1901.09457,
  title  = {Three dimensional two-band Floquet topological insulator with $Z_2$ index},
  author = {Yan He and Chih-Chun Chien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09457},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures, submitted