Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2021
Volume 66, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session S46: Strong Electronic Correlations in Topological Materials
11:30 AM–2:30 PM,
Thursday, March 18, 2021
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Unit:
DCMP
Chair: Thais Victa Trevisan, Ames Lab
Abstract: S46.00011 : Symmetry protected invariants for the single-particle Green’s function of interacting topological insulators
1:30 PM–1:42 PM
Live
Presenter:
Dominik Lessnich
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
Authors:
Dominik Lessnich
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
Stephen Winter
(Wake Forest University)
Roser Valenti
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
We extend these equivalent formalisms to interacting insulators in terms of the single-particle Matsubara Green's function in the zero-temperature limit. We do so by defining topological invariants for the Green's function at zero frequency which are protected by spatial symmetries. These invariants can be calculated by applying the formalism of TQC or symmetry indicators to an auxiliary non-interacting system defined by HT(k) = -G-1(0,k), which is known as the topological Hamiltonian [Wang et al., Phys. Rev. X 2, 031008 (2012)].
For general interacting systems these invariants can only change by (i) a gap closing in the spectral function at zero frequency, (ii) the Green's function having a zero at zero frequency or (iii) the Green's function breaking a protecting symmetry of the invariant.
We demonstrate the use of these invariants on the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with Hubbard interactions, which we solve by exact diagonalization for a finite number of unit cells.
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