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Zero modes of non-abelian Dirac operator in topologically non-trivial band insulator

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-05-28 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that the local gauge-invariance of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) defined in the Block-momentum space of a generic NN-level (sublattice degrees of freedom) band insulator implies the existence of zero modes of non-abelian Dirac operator in such momentum space. Solutions of these zero modes equations in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone torus, in terms of Jacobi Theta function determine the probability amplitudes associated with the NN-component ground state wave-function under adiabatic approximation in this Hilbert space. These solutions subjected to normalization, defines a complex projective (CPCP) space of N1N-1 dimension (CPN1CP^{N-1} space) when one or more degeneracy points exist in the dispersion spectrum of such band-isulator. We show how the non-abelian generalization of the vortexability criterion of Chern bands automatically follows from these zero-mode equations, and also demonstrate their connection with momentum space-version of Lowest landau level algebra. Subsequently we write an Euclidean action from which these zero mode equations follow. We point out that the non-interacting part of different paradigms used to understand fractional Chern insulator(FCI) like phases in a host of two-dimensional material can be understood within this approach. We analyse two effective hamiltonian : lattice Dirac (QZW) model and two-band model for rhombohedral NN-layer graphene in our propsoed framework and obtain important conclusions.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27608,
  title  = {Zero modes of non-abelian Dirac operator in topologically non-trivial band insulator},
  author = {Neha Kumari and Sankalpa Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27608},
  year   = {2026}
}

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27 pages including appendices