SKM 2021 – scientific programme

Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Updates | Downloads | Help

TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 25: Poster Session: Topology

TT 25.14: Poster

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 13:30–16:00, P

Generalized Chern numbers based on open system Green’s functions — Maria Belén Farias, •Solofo Groenendijk, and Thomas Schmidt — Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

We present an alternative approach to studying topology in open quantum systems, relying directly on Green’s functions and avoiding the need to construct an effective non-Hermitian (nH) Hamiltonian. We define an energy-dependent Chern number based on the eigenstates of the inverse Green’s function matrix of the system which contains, within the self-energy, all the information about the influence of the environment, interactions, gain or losses. We explicitly calculate this topological invariant for a system consisting of a single 2D Dirac cone and find that it is half-integer quantized when certain assumptions about the self-energy are made. Away from these conditions, which cannot or are not usually considered within the formalism of nH Hamiltonians, we find that such a quantization is usually lost and the Chern number vanishes, and that in special cases, it can change to integer quantization.