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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 122, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.166602
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- ONR (USA) [N00014-17-1-2803]
- NCCR MARVEL of the Swiss National Science Foundation
- EU Centre of Excellence MaX Materials design at the Exascale
An insulator differs from a metal because of a different organization of the electrons in their ground state. In recent years this feature has been probed by means of a geometrical property, the quantum metric tensor, which addresses the system as a whole, and is therefore limited to macroscopically homogenous samples. Here we show that an analogous approach leads to a localization marker, which can detect the metallic versus insulating character of a given sample region using as the sole ingredient the ground state electron distribution, even in the Anderson case (where the spectrum is gapless). When applied to an insulator with a nonzero Chern invariant, our marker is capable of discriminating the insulating nature of the bulk from the conducting nature of the boundary. Simulations (both model Hamiltonian and first principles) on several test cases validate our theory.
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