Interacting crystalline topological insulators in two-dimensions with time-reversal symmetry

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Title: Interacting crystalline topological insulators in two-dimensions with time-reversal symmetry
Authors: Martina O. Soldini, Ömer M. Aksoy, Titus Neupert
Source: Physical Review Research, Vol 6, Iss 3, p 033205 (2024)
Publisher Information: American Physical Society, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Physics
Subject Terms: Physics, QC1-999
More Details: Topology is routinely used to understand the physics of electronic insulators. However, for strongly interacting electronic matter, such as Mott insulators, a comprehensive topological characterization is still lacking. When their ground state only contains short-range entanglement and does not break symmetries spontaneously, they generically realize crystalline fermionic symmetry-protected topological phases (cFSPTs), supporting gapless modes at the boundaries or at the lattice defects. Here, we provide an exhaustive classification of cFSPTs in two dimensions with U(1) charge-conservation and spinful time-reversal symmetries, namely, those generically present in spin-orbit coupled insulators, for any of the 17 wallpaper groups. It has been shown that the classification of cFSPTs can be understood from appropriate real-space decorations of lower-dimensional subspaces, and we expose how these relate to the Wyckoff positions of the lattice. We find that all nontrivial one-dimensional decorations require electronic interactions. Furthermore, we provide model Hamiltonians for various decorations, and discuss the signatures of cFSPTs. This classification paves the way to further explore topological interacting insulators, providing the backbone information in generic model systems and ultimately in experiments.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2643-1564
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033205
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/be5ecaf0548743438cbbaad09f9c40fb
Accession Number: edsdoj.be5ecaf0548743438cbbaad09f9c40fb
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:26431564
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033205
Published in:Physical Review Research
Language:English