Three-dimensional topological insulators and bosonization

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)135zbMATH Open1380.81368arXiv1612.05212MaRDI QIDQ683039FDOQ683039

Jacopo Sisti, Enrico Randellini, Andrea Cappelli

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Massless excitations at the surface of three-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulators possess both fermionic and bosonic descriptions, originating from band theory and hydrodynamic BF gauge theory, respectively. We analyze the corresponding field theories of the Dirac fermion and compactified boson and compute their partition functions on the three-dimensional torus geometry. We then find some non-dynamic exact properties of bosonization in (2+1) dimensions, regarding fermion parity and spin sectors. Using these results, we extend the Fu-Kane-Mele stability argument to fractional topological insulators in three dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05212

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionstopological field theoriestopological states of matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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