Approximations of interface topological invariants
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Abstract: This paper concerns continuous models for two-dimensional topological insulators and superconductors. Such systems are characterized by asymmetric transport along a -dimensional curve representing the interface between two insulating materials. The asymmetric transport is quantified by an interface conductivity. Our first objective is to prove that the conductivity is quantized and stable with respect to a large class of perturbations, and to relate it to an integral involving the symbol of the system's Hamiltonian; this is a bulk-interface correspondence. Second, we define a modified interface conductivity in a periodic setting, and show that it is asymptotically robust despite lacking the topological nature of its infinite domain analogue. This periodization allows for numerical evaluations of the conductivity. We demonstrate on a class of differential systems that the periodic interface conductivity is a good approximation for the infinite domain conductivity. To illustrate the theoretical results, we present numerical simulations that approximate the (infinite domain) conductivity with high accuracy, and show that it is approximately quantized even in the presence of perturbations.
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