Weyl Points of the Entanglement Spectrum for Topological Insulators from First Principles

ORAL

Abstract

As for the three dimensional topological insulators, the parity of the Weyl points of an entanglement spectrum in the half of the Brillouin zone characterizes the strong topological insulator (STI) phase from the weak one (WTI phase)[1]. The STI/WTI phase corresponds to the odd/even parity. Without using any symmetry such as spatial inversion, one can easily specify the Weyl points by the section Chern number of the entanglement Hamiltonians. We apply this characterization method to realistic topological insulator materials using the first principle calculations.
[1] H. Araki, T. Fukui, and Y. Hatsugai, PRB 96, 165139 (2017)

Presenters

  • Hiromu Araki

    University of Tsukuba

Authors

  • Hiromu Araki

    University of Tsukuba

  • Takahiro Fukui

    Ibaraki University

  • Yasuhiro Hatsugai

    Univ of Tsukuba, University of Tsukuba