Spectral flows associated to flux tubes

DOI10.1007/S00023-014-0394-5zbMATH Open1333.81448arXiv1405.2054OpenAlexW2012701736MaRDI QIDQ5962765FDOQ5962765

Authors: Giuseppe De Nittis, Hermann Schulz-Baldes 

Publication date: 23 February 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When a flux quantum is pushed through a gapped two-dimensional tight-binding operator, there is an associated spectral flow through the gap which is shown to be equal to the index of a Fredholm operator encoding the topology of the Fermi projection. This is a natural mathematical formulation of Laughlin's Gedankenexperiment. It is used to provide yet another proof of the bulk-edge correspondence. Furthermore, when applied to systems with time reversal symmetry, the spectral flow has a characteristic $Z_2$ signature, while for particle-hole symmetric systems it leads to a criterion for the existence of zero energy modes attached to half-flux tubes. Combined with other results, this allows to explain all strong invariants of two-dimensional topological insulators in terms of a single Fredholm operator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2054

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13)

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