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Topological Insulators on the Lieb and Perovskite Lattices

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2010-11-11 v1

Abstract

Electrons hopping on the sites of a two-dimensional Lieb lattice and three-dimensional edge centered cubic (perovskite) lattice are shown to form topologically non-trivial insulating phases when spin-orbit coupling is introduced. These simple models on lattices with cubic symmetry show a Dirac-like structure in the excitation spectrum but with the unusual feature that there is a dispersionless band through the center of the spectrum and only a single Dirac cone per Brillouin zone.

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@article{arxiv.1004.5172,
  title  = {Topological Insulators on the Lieb and Perovskite Lattices},
  author = {C. Weeks and M. Franz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.5172},
  year   = {2010}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures