The edge spectrum of Chern insulators with rough boundaries

Details The edge spectrum of Chern insulators with rough boundaries The edge spectrum of Chern insulators with rough boundaries

2008-09-15

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2569v2

J. Math. Phys. 50, 083517 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3204511

Chern insulators are periodic band insulators with the property that their projector onto the occupied bands have non-zero Chern number. Chern insulator with a homogeneous boundary display continuum spectrum that fills the entire insulating gap. The local density of states corresponding to this part of the spectrum is localized near the boundary, hence the terminology edge spectrum. An interesting question arises, namely, if a rough boundary, which can be seen as a strong random potential acting on these quasi 1-dimensional states, would destroy the continuum edge spectrum. This paper shows how such question can be answered via a newly formulated abstract framework in which the expectation value of the current of a general observable is connected to the index of a specific Fredholm operator. For the present application, we will connect the expectation value of the charge edge current with the index of a Fredholm operator that remains invariant under arbitrary deformations of the boundary.

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