Cobordism invariance of topological edge-following states

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2022.V26.N3.A4MaRDI QIDQ6333347arXivFDO

Authors Matthias Ludewig, Guo Chuan Thiang

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2022.V26.N3.A4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Extension and compression of mappings in algebraic topology (55S36) Quantum channels, fidelity (81P47) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

arXiv classification

cond-mat.mes-hallmath-phmath.KTmath.MPmath.OA

Abstract: We prove that a spectral gap-filling phenomenon occurs whenever a Hamiltonian operator encounters a coarse index obstruction upon compression to a domain with boundary. Furthermore, the gap-filling spectra contribute to quantised current channels, which follow and are localised at the possibly complicated boundary. This index obstruction is shown to be insensitive to deformations of the domain boundary, so the phenomenon is generic for magnetic Laplacians modelling quantum Hall systems and Chern topological insulators. A key construction is a quasi-equivariant version of Roe's algebra of locally compact finite propagation operators.

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