$Z_2$ antiferromagnetic topological insulators with broken $C_4$ symmetry
Abstract
A two-dimensional topological insulator may arise in a centrosymmetric commensurate N\'{e}el antiferromagnet (AF), where staggered magnetization breaks both the elementary translation and time reversal, but retains their product as a symmetry. Fang et al.[Phys. Rev. B 88, 085406 (2013)] proposed an expression for a topological invariant to characterize such systems. Here, we show that this expression does not allow to detect all the existing phases if a certain lattice symmetry is lacking. We implement numerical techniques to diagnose topological phases of a toy Hamiltonian, and verify our results by computing the Chern numbers of degenerate bands, and also by explicitly constructing the edge states, thus illustrating the efficiency of the method.
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@article{arxiv.1605.08291,
title = {$Z_2$ antiferromagnetic topological insulators with broken $C_4$ symmetry},
author = {Frédéric Bègue and Pierre Pujol and Revaz Ramazashvili},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08291},
year = {2017}
}