Bundle gerbes for topological insulators

DOI10.4064/BC114-4zbMATH Open1397.53044arXiv1512.01028OpenAlexW2964079008MaRDI QIDQ4581201FDOQ4581201

Authors: Krzysztof Gawȩdzki 

Publication date: 23 August 2018

Published in: Banach Center Publications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Bundle gerbes are simple examples of higher geometric structures that show their utility in dealing with topological subtleties of physical theories. I review a recent construction of torsion topological invariants for condensed matter systems via equivariant bundle gerbes. The construction covers static and periodically driven systems with time reversal invariance in 2 and 3 space dimensions. It involves refinements of geometry of gerbes that are discussed in the first lecture, the second one being devoted to the applications to topological insulators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01028

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zbMATH Keywords

bulk-edge correspondenceKane-Mele invariantcrystalline systemssquare root of gerbe holonomyWess-Zumino amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

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