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Topological band insulators are classified using momentum-space topological invariants, such as Chern or winding numbers, when they feature translational symmetry. The lack of translation symmetry in disordered, quasicrystalline, or…

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A system of generalized kinetic equations for the distribution functions of two-dimensional Dirac fermions scattered by impurities is derived in the Born approximation with respect to short-range impurity potential. It is proven that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 M. Auslender , M. I. Katsnelson

Representations of certain vertex algebras, here called of CohFT-type, can be used to construct vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks on moduli spaces of stable curves [DGT2]. We show that such bundles define semisimple…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Chiara Damiolini , Angela Gibney , Nicola Tarasca

Characteristic classes, which are abstract topological invariants associated with vector bundles, have become an important notion in modern physics with surprising real-world consequences. As a representative example, the incredible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Cody Tipton , Elizabeth Coda , Davis Brown , Alyson Bittner , Jung Lee , Grayson Jorgenson , Tegan Emerson , Henry Kvinge

Local markers provide an efficient and powerful characterization of topological features of many systems, especially when the translation symmetry is broken. Recently, a universal topological local marker applicable in different symmetry…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Yulin Qin , Chang-An Li , Jian Li

In generalization of knot quandles we introduce similar algebraic structures associated with arbitrary pairs consisting of a path-connected topological space and its path-connected subspace.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Vladimir Turaev

Universal representation of geometric patterns of disordered matters is investigated with the aid of general topology. By utilizing the result obtained in the previous study (S. Ohmori, et.al., Phys. Scr. 94, 105213 (2019)) that any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Shousuke Ohmori , Yoshihiro Yamazaki , Tomoyuki Yamamoto , Akihiko Kitada

We investigate the relation between the localization of generalized Wannier bases and the topological properties of two-dimensional gapped quantum systems of independent electrons in a disordered background, including magnetic fields, as in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Giovanna Marcelli , Massimo Moscolari , Gianluca Panati

We explore the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators (superconductors) without time-reversal symmetry from the point of view of the index theorem for open spaces. We assume generic Hamiltonians not only with a linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Fukui , K. Shiozaki , T. Fujiwara , S. Fujimoto

Chern numbers can be calculated within a frame of vortex fields related to phase conventions of a wave function. In a band protected by gaps the Chern number is equivalent to the total number of flux carrying vortices. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Axel Fünfhaus , Thilo Kopp , Elias Lettl

This paper is concerned with paired operators in the context of the Lebesgue Hilbert space on the unit circle and its subspace, the Hardy space. By considering when such operators commute, generalizations of the Brown--Halmos results for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-01 M. Cristina Câmara , André Guimarães , Jonathan R. Partington

This lecture note adresses the correspondence between spectral flows, often associated to unidirectional modes, and Chern numbers associated to degeneracy points. The notions of topological indices (Chern numbers, analytical indices) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Pierre Delplace

We present the construction of a Chern character in cyclic cohomology, involving an arbitrary number of associative algebras in contravariant or covariant position. This is a generalization of the bivariant Chern character for bornological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis Perrot

We describe dualities and complexes of logarithmic forms and differentials for central affine and corresponding projective arrangements. We generalize the Borel-Serre formula from vector bundles to sheaves on projective d-space with locally…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Graham Denham , Mathias Schulze

In the last decade, a large amount of research has been concentrated on the operators living on the model space. Asymmetric truncated Toeplitz operators and asymmetric truncated Hankel operators are the natural generalization of truncated…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Ameur Yagoub , Muhammad Ahsan Khan

We give an algorithmic description of the action of the Chern classes of tautological bundles on the cohomology of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces within the framework of Nakajima's oscillator algebra. This leads to an identification…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Manfred Lehn

Topological invariants are global properties of the ground-state wave function, typically defined as winding numbers in reciprocal space. Over the years, a number of topological markers in real space have been introduced, allowing to map…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

Operator fields in the bundle of Dirac spinors and their conversion to spatial fields are considered. Some commutator equations are studied with the use of the conversion technique.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-12 Ruslan Sharipov

We generalize Prodan's construction of radially localized generalized Wannier bases [E. Prodan, On the generalized Wannier functions. J. Math. Phys. 56(11), 113511 (2015)] to gapped quantum systems without time-reversal symmetry, including…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Massimo Moscolari , Gianluca Panati

The Dirac q-monopole connection is used to compute projector matrices of quantum Hopf line bundles for arbitrary winding number. The Chern-Connes pairing of cyclic cohomology and K-theory is computed for the winding number -1. The…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-10-31 P. M. Hajac , S. Majid