Spin Hall insulators beyond the Helical Luttinger model
Abstract
We consider the interacting, spin conserving, extended Kane-Mele-Hubbard model, and we rigorously establish the exact quantization of the edge spin conductance and the validity of the Helical Luttinger liquid relations for Drude weights and susceptibilities. Our analysis fully takes into account lattice effects, typically neglected in the Helical Luttinger model approximation, which play an essential role for universality. The analysis is based on exact renormalization group methods and on a combination of lattice and emergent Ward identities, which allow to relate the emergent chiral anomaly with the finite renormalizations due to lattice corrections.
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@article{arxiv.1709.05008,
title = {Spin Hall insulators beyond the Helical Luttinger model},
author = {Vieri Mastropietro and Marcello Porta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.05008},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Extended version of the original submission. Figure added, minor corrections. 10 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication on Phys. Rev. B