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Higher-bracket structure of density operators in Weyl fermion systems and topological insulators
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Physics, Condensed Matter Theory.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7481-2245
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Center for Gravitational Physics and Quantum Information, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
2024 (English)In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 110, no 19, article id 195115Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We study the algebraic structure of electron density operators in gapless Weyl fermion systems in d=3,5,7, » spatial dimensions and in topological insulators (without any protecting symmetry) in d=4,6,8, » spatial dimensions. These systems are closely related by the celebrated bulk-boundary correspondence. Specifically, we study the higher bracket - a generalization of commutator for more than two operators - of electron density operators in these systems. For topological insulators, we show that the higher-bracket algebraic structure of density operators structurally parallels with the Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman algebra (the W1+∞ algebra), the algebra of electron density operators projected onto the lowest Landau level in the quantum Hall effect. By the bulk-boundary correspondence, the bulk higher-bracket structure mirrors its counterparts at the boundary. Specifically, we show that the density operators of Weyl fermion systems, once normal-ordered with respect to the ground state, their higher bracket acquires a c-number part. This part is an analog of the Schwinger term in the commutator of the fermion current operators. We further identify this part with a cyclic cocycle, which is a topological invariant and an element of Connes' noncommutative geometry.

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American Physical Society (APS) , 2024. Vol. 110, no 19, article id 195115
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-356693DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.195115ISI: 001356592400004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85208542006OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-356693DiVA, id: diva2:1914864
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