Interacting topological insulators on the kagome and decorated honeycomb lattices

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Abstract

We study the phase diagram of an extended Hubbard model on the kagome and decorated honeycomb lattice. At the mean-field level a rich set of conventional and topological phases emerges, including some where spin-orbit coupling is dynamically generated and a $Z_2$ topological band insulator with time-reversal symmetry appears. We discuss the connection between different topological phases, including those involving broken time-reversal symmetry in the strong interaction limit.

Authors

  • Jun Wen

    University of Texas at Austin

  • Andreas R\"uegg

    University of Texas at Austin

  • Cheng-Ching Wang

    Georgetown University

  • Gregory Fiete

    Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin