Higher Berry Curvature from the Wave function II: Locally Parameterized States Beyond One Dimension
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 dimensional lattice systems, for which we construct the closed -form higher Berry curvature, which is a generalization of the well known 2-form Berry curvature. Such -form higher Berry curvature characterizes a flow of -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 symmetry, which corresponds to a closed -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 .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figures