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

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

Domenico Monaco, Clément Tauber

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 connection; Polyakov-Wiegmann formula; Fu-Kane-Mele \(\mathbb {Z}_2\) invariant; time-reversal symmetric topological insulators; Wess-Zumino amplitude

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J10: Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation

81Q30: Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry

81Q70: Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory