Edge states and the bulk-boundary correspondence in Dirac Hamiltonians

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2010-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2778v2

Phys. Rev. B 83, 125109 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages + appendices

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.83.125109

We present an analytic prescription for computing the edge dispersion E(k) of a tight-binding Dirac Hamiltonian terminated at an abrupt crystalline edge. Specifically, we consider translationally invariant Dirac Hamiltonians with nearest-layer interaction. We present and prove a geometric formula that relates the existence of surface states as well as their energy dispersion to properties of the bulk Hamiltonian. We further prove the bulk-boundary correspondence between the Chern number and the chiral edge modes for quantum Hall systems within the class of Hamiltonians studied in the paper. Our results can be extended to the case of continuum theories which are quadratic in the momentum, as well as other symmetry classes.

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