2d Fu-Kane-Mele invariant as Wess-Zumino action of the sewing matrix

DOI10.1007/S11005-016-0922-YMaRDI QIDQ524129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Krzysztof Gawȩdzki

Publication date 25 April 2017

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05581

zbMATH Keywords

topological insulatorsbundle gerbesKane-Mele invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08)

Abstract: We show that the Fu-Kane-Mele invariant of the 2d time-reversal-invariant crystalline insulators is equal to the properly normalized Wess-Zumino action of the so-called sewing matrix field defined on the Brillouin torus. Applied to 3d, the result permits a direct proof of the known relation between the strong Fu-Kane-Mele invariant and the Chern-Simons action of the non-Abelian Berry connection on the bundle of valence states.

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