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In topological bands, it is impossible to construct exponentially localized Wannier functions while preserving the symmetries. Instead, in quantum Hall systems, one can define an overcomplete basis of spatially localized coherent states. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Nobuyuki Okuma

We introduce a second-quantized field theory for Chern insulators in which the Hamiltonian features a static vector potential that has the periodicity of the crystal's lattice and spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry in the system's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jason G. Kattan , J. E. Sipe

We present a detailed study of the real-time dynamics and spectral properties of the one-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model at infinite temperature. Using tensor network simulations in Liouville space, we compute the single-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Ovidiu I. Patu , Balázs Dóra , Gergely Zaránd

Green's function zeros, which can emerge only if correlation is strong, have been for long overlooked and believed to be devoid of any physical meaning, unlike Green's function poles. Here, we prove that Green's function zeros instead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Andrea Blason , Michele Fabrizio

A simple model of noninteracting electrons with a separable one-body potential is used to discuss the possible pole structure of single particle Green's functions for fermions on unphysical sheets in the complex frequency plane as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Schoenhammer

We investigate the transport properties of Chern insulators following a quantum quench between topological and non-topological phases. Recent works have shown that this yields an excited state for which the Chern number is preserved under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-06 M. D. Caio , N. R. Cooper , M. J. Bhaseen

The construction of optimally localized Wannier functions (and Wannier functions in general) for a Chern insulator has been considered to be impossible owing to the fact that the second moment of such functions is generally infinite. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-12 Thivan M. Gunawardana , Ari M. Turner , Ryan Barnett

Topology plays a central role in nearly all disciplines of physics, yet its applications have so far been restricted to closed, lossless systems in thermodynamic equilibrium. Given that many physical systems are open and may include gain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Timothy M. Philip , Matthew J. Gilbert

In this paper we make attempt to obtain a description of the Quantum Hall Effect (both integer and fractional) by means of electron's Green functions of three-dimensional (planar) electrodynamics. We show that expression for the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Podist A. Kurashvili

We present an alternative approach to studying topology in open quantum systems, relying directly on Green's functions and avoiding the need to construct an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We define an energy-dependent Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 M. Belén Farias , Solofo Groenendijk , Thomas L. Schmidt

The Chern topological numbers of a material system are traditionally written in terms of the Berry curvature which depends explicitly on the material band structure and on the Bloch eigenwaves. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-04 Mário G. Silveirinha

A set of recent results indicates that fractionally filled bands of Chern insulators in two dimensions support fractional quantum Hall states analogous to those found in fractionally filled Landau levels. We provide an understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-26 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

Non-Hermitian phenomena offer a novel approach to analyze and interpret spectra in the presence of interactions. Using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG), we demonstrate the existence of exceptional points for the one-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-08 Roman Rausch , Robert Peters , Tsuneya Yoshida

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

In this work, we study the three-dimensional non-Abelian noncommutative supersymmetric Chern-Simons model with the U(N) gauge group. Using a superfield formulation, we prove that, for the pure gauge theory, the Green functions are one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , A. Yu. Petrov , A. J. da Silva

It is shown how the electromagnetic response of the 2DEG under Quantumm Hall Effect regime, chracterized by the Chern-Simons topological action, transforms the sample impurities and defects in charge reservoirs that stabilize the the Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca , Danny Martinez-Pedrera

Luttinger's theorem constrains the particle density of interacting fermions through global properties of the single-particle Green's function, and its violation signals a breakdown of the identification between the quantized Hall response…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Anton A. Markov , Andrey M. Nikishin , Nigel R. Cooper , Nathan Goldman , Lucila Peralta Gavensky

A technically convenient signature of localization, exhibited by discrete operators with random potentials, is exponential decay of the fractional moments of the Green function within the appropriate energy ranges. Known implications…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Michael Aizenman , Jeffrey H. Schenker , Roland M. Friedrich , Dirk Hundertmark

We have developed a Green's function formalism based on the use of an overcomplete semicoherent basis of vortex states, specially devoted to the study of the Hamiltonian quantum dynamics of electrons at high magnetic fields and in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 T. Champel , S. Florens

Chern insulators present a topological obstruction to a smooth gauge in their Bloch wave functions that prevents the construction of exponentially-localized Wannier functions - this makes the electric polarization ill-defined. Here, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Sachin Vaidya , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Wladimir A. Benalcazar