Aleksandra Nelson^1*, Titus Neupert¹, Tomáš Bzdušek^2,1, Aris Alexandradinata^3,4

1 Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland

2 Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

3 Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-2918, USA

4 Physics Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

* Corresponding authors emails: anelson@physik.uzh.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:ng-f1 [version v1]

Publication date: Dec 13, 2021

How to cite this record

Aleksandra Nelson, Titus Neupert, Tomáš Bzdušek, Aris Alexandradinata, Multicellularity of delicate topological insulators, Materials Cloud Archive 2021.219 (2021), doi: 10.24435/materialscloud:ng-f1.

Description

Being Wannierizable is not the end of the story for topological insulators. We introduce a family of topological insulators that would be considered trivial in the paradigm set by the tenfold way, topological quantum chemistry, and the method of symmetry-based indicators. Despite having a symmetric, exponentially localized Wannier representation, each Wannier function cannot be completely localized to a single primitive unit cell in the bulk. Such multicellular topology is shown to be neither stable nor fragile, but delicate; i.e., the topology can be nullified by adding trivial bands to either valence or conduction band.

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Figure_3.py MD5md5:fb985ab8c3fab5ecd1467da6e54ac573	9.3 KiB	Code that generates data for figure 3 in the main text: polarization for the Hopf insulator
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Keywords

topological insulators delicate topology multicellular Wannier functions returning Thouless pump Hopf insulator SNSF ERC H2020 MARVEL/DD6