Gauge-theoretic invariants for topological insulators: a bridge between Berry, Wess-Zumino, and Fu-Kane-Mele

DOI10.1007/s11005-017-0946-yzbMath1370.35093arXiv1611.05691OpenAlexW3103542874MaRDI QIDQ2402599

Clément Tauber, Domenico Monaco

Publication date: 20 September 2017

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05691

zbMATH Keywords

Berry connectionPolyakov-Wiegmann formulaFu-Kane-Mele \(\mathbb {Z}_2\) invarianttime-reversal symmetric topological insulatorsWess-Zumino amplitude

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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