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Topology of crystalline insulators and superconductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-10-15 v3 Superconductivity High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by non-interacting Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes Hamiltonians that support additional order-two spatial symmetry, besides any of ten classes of symmetries defined by time-reversal symmetry and particle-hole symmetry. The additional order-two spatial symmetry we consider is general and it includes Z2Z_2 global symmetry, mirror reflection, two-fold rotation, inversion, and their magnetic point group symmetries. We find that the topological periodic table shows a novel periodicity in the number of flipped coordinates under the order-two spatial symmetry, in addition to the Bott-periodicity in the space dimensions. Various symmetry protected topological phases and gapless modes will be identified and discussed in a unified framework. We also present topological classification of symmetry protected Fermi points. The bulk classification and the surface Fermi point classification provide a novel realization of the bulk-boundary correspondence in terms of the K-theory.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3331,
  title  = {Topology of crystalline insulators and superconductors},
  author = {Ken Shiozaki and Masatoshi Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3331},
  year   = {2014}
}

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58 pages, final version