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Mode-Shell correspondence, a unifying phase space theory in topological physics – Part II: Higher-dimensional spectral invariants
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Physics, Condensed Matter Theory. CNRS, ENS de Lyon, LPENSL, UMR5672, 69342, Lyon Cedex 07, France.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8140-9139
CNRS, ENS de Lyon, LPENSL, UMR5672, 69342, Lyon Cedex 07, France.
2025 (English)In: SciPost Physics, E-ISSN 2542-4653, Vol. 18, no 6, article id 193Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The mode-shell correspondence relates the number \mathcal{I}_M ℐ M of gapless modes in phase space to a topological \mathcal{I}_S ℐ S defined on a closed surface - the shell - surrounding those modes, namely \mathcal{I}_M=\mathcal{I}_S ℐ M = ℐ S . In part I, we introduced the mode-shell correspondence for zero-modes of chiral symmetric Hamiltonians (class AIII). In this part II, we broaden the correspondence to arbitrary dimension and to both symmetry classes A and AIII. This allows us to include, in particular, 1D 1 D -unidirectional edge modes of Chern insulators, 2D 2 D massless Dirac and 3D 3 D -Weyl cones, within the same formalism. We provide an expression for \mathcal{I}_M ℐ M that only depends on the dimension of the dispersion relation of the gapless mode, and does not require a translation invariance. Then, we show that the topology of the shell (a circle, a sphere, a torus), that must account for the spreading of the gapless mode in phase space, yields specific expressions of the shell index. Semi-classical expressions of those shell indices are also derived and reduce to either Chern or winding numbers depending on the parity of the mode’s dimension. In that way, the mode-shell correspondence provides a unified and systematic topological description of both bulk and boundary gapless modes in any dimension, and in particular includes the bulk-boundary correspondence. We illustrate the generality of the theory by analyzing several models of semimetals and insulators, both on lattices and in the continuum, and also discuss weak and higher-order topological phases within this framework. Although this paper is a continuation of Part I, the content remains sufficiently independent to be mostly read separately.

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Stichting SciPost , 2025. Vol. 18, no 6, article id 193
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-368658DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.6.193ISI: 001513179500003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105008567237OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-368658DiVA, id: diva2:1990985
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