Local models and global constraints for degeneracies and band crossings

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103892zbMATH Open1450.81040arXiv1807.05751OpenAlexW3081595490MaRDI QIDQ2207482FDOQ2207482

Authors: Ralph M. Kaufmann, Sergei Khlebnikov, Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann 

Publication date: 22 October 2020

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study topological properties of families of Hamiltonians which may contain degenerate energy levels aka. band crossings. The primary tool are Chern classes, Berry phases and slicing by surfaces. To analyse the degenerate locus, we study local models. These give information about the Chern classes and Berry phases. We then give global constraints for the topological invariants. This is an hitherto relatively unexplored subject. The global constraints are more strict when incorporating symmetries such as time reversal symmetries. The results can also be used in the study of deformations. We furthermore use these constraints to analyse examples which include the Gyroid geometry, which exhibits Weyl points and triple crossings and the honeycomb geometry with its two Dirac points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05751

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zbMATH Keywords

geometrydeformationstopological invariantsband structurescondensed matter systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Flows related to complex manifolds (e.g., Kähler-Ricci flows, Chern-Ricci flows) (53E30)

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