Localization properties of Chern insulators

DOI10.1007/S40598-019-00098-8MaRDI QIDQ2302247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roman Bezrukavnikov, Anton Kapustin

Publication date 26 February 2020

Published in Arnold Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07602

zbMATH Keywords

quantum Hall effectalgebraic vector bundlesChern insulators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We study the localization properties of the equal-time electron Green's function in a Chern insulator in an arbitrary dimension and with an arbitrary number of bands. We prove that the Green's function cannot decay super-exponentially if the Hamiltonian is finite-range and the quantum Hall response is nonzero. For a general band Hamiltonian (possibly infinite-range), we prove that the Green's function cannot be finite-range if the quantum Hall response is nonzero. The proofs use methods of algebraic geometry.

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