Gradient flow and Bogomolny bounds for quantum metric actions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2026-01-06 v2
Abstract
We formulate gradient flow dynamics generated by two natural actions of the quantum metric for an isolated set of Bloch bands. Specializing to two spatial dimensions, we derive Bogomolny-type lower bounds that relate these actions to the Chern number and show that the bounds are saturated by (anti-)holomorphic projector configurations. Along the flows, the actions decrease monotonically while the Chern number is conserved, giving a constructive route to simplify models within a fixed topological phase toward canonical, low-complexity representatives.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.07855,
title = {Gradient flow and Bogomolny bounds for quantum metric actions},
author = {T. Fukui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.07855},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure, v2: final version