We present a functional renormalization group approach to interacting topological Green function invariants with a focus on the nature of transitions. The method is applied to chiral symmetric fermion chains in the Mott limit that can be driven into a Haldane phase. We explicitly show that the transition to this phase is accompanied by a zero of the fermion Green function. Our results for the phase boundary are quantitatively benchmarked against DMRG data.
@article{arxiv.1805.00839,
title = {Topological invariants for the Haldane phase of interacting SSH chains -- a functional RG approach},
author = {Björn Sbierski and Christoph Karrasch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00839},
year = {2018}
}