期刊
FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-019-0943-y
关键词
topological insulator; Chern insulator
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11874201]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [0204/14380119]
- GRF of Hong Kong [HKU173057/17P]
It was understood that Chern insulators cannot be realized in the presence of PT symmetry. In this paper, we reveal a new class of PT-symmetric Chern insulators, which has internal degrees of freedom forming real representations of a symmetry group with a complex endomorphism field. As a generalization to the conventional 2n-dimensional Chern insulators with integer n >= 1, these PT-symmetric Chern insulators have the n-th complex Chern number as their topological invariant, and have a Z classification given by the equivariant orthogonal K theory. Thus, in a fairly different sense, there exist ubiquitously Chern insulators with PT symmetry. By generalizing the Thouless charge pump argument, we find that, for a PT-symmetric Chern insulator with Chern number nu, there are equally many nu flavors of coexisting left- and right-handed chiral modes. Chiral modes with opposite chirality are complex conjugates to each other as complex representations of the internal symmetry group, but are not isomorphic. For the physical dimensionality d = 2, the PT-symmetric Chern insulators may be realized in artificial systems including photonic crystals and periodic mechanical systems.
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