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Higher Berry Curvature from the Wave function II: Locally Parameterized States Beyond One Dimension

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-04-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a systematic wave function based approach to construct topological invariants for families of lattice systems that are short-range entangled using local parameter spaces. This construction is particularly suitable when given a family of tensor networks that can be viewed as the ground states of dd dimensional lattice systems, for which we construct the closed (d+2)(d+2)-form higher Berry curvature, which is a generalization of the well known 2-form Berry curvature. Such (d+2)(d+2)-form higher Berry curvature characterizes a flow of (d+1)(d+1)-form higher Berry curvature in the system. Our construction is equally suitable for constructing other higher pumps, such as the (higher) Thouless pump in the presence of a global on-site U(1)U(1) symmetry, which corresponds to a closed dd-form. The cohomology classes of such higher differential forms are topological invariants and are expected to be quantized for short-range entangled states. We illustrate our construction with exactly solvable lattice models that are in nontrivial higher Berry classes in d=2d=2.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05323,
  title  = {Higher Berry Curvature from the Wave function II: Locally Parameterized States Beyond One Dimension},
  author = {Ophelia Evelyn Sommer and Ashvin Vishwanath and Xueda Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05323},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures

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