TKNN formula for general Hamiltonian
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-04-15 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
Topological insulators in odd dimensions are characterized by topological numbers. We prove the well-known relation between the topological number given by the Chern character of the Berry curvature and the Chern-Simons level of the low energy effective action for a general class of Hamiltonians bilinear in the fermion with general U(1) gauge interactions including non-minimal couplings by an explicit calculation. A series of Ward-Takahashi identities are crucial to relate the Chern-Simons level to a winding number, which could then be directly reduced to Chern character of Berry curvature by carrying out the integral over the temporal momenta.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.11852,
title = {TKNN formula for general Hamiltonian},
author = {Hidenori Fukaya and Tetsuya Onogi and Satoshi Yamaguchi and Xi Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11852},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
revised version, 23 pages