Note on the Green's function formalism and topological invariants

Creators: Zhou, Yehao; Liu, Junyu

Abstract

It has been discovered previously that the topological order parameter could be identified from the topological data of the Green's function, namely the (generalized) TKNN invariant in general dimensions, for both non-interacting and interacting systems. In this note, we show that this phenomenon has a clear geometric derivation. This proposal could be regarded as an alternative proof for the identification of the corresponding topological invariant and the topological order parameter.

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A significant part of this work is contributed to the partial fulfilment of Perimeter Scholars International program of YZ. This work is initiated from a discussion between Jingxiang Wu and YZ. We thank Kevin Costello, Xie Chen and Davide Gaiotto for helpful communications. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported by the Government of Canada through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation. JL acknowledges support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0011632.

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