Boundary Flat Bands with Topological Spin Textures Protected by Sub-chiral Symmetry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01851v1
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 17:59:58 GMT
• Title: Boundary Flat Bands with Topological Spin Textures Protected by Sub-chiral Symmetry
• Authors: Yijie Mo, Xiao-Jiao Wang, Rui Yu, Zhongbo Yan
• Abstract summary: Chiral symmetry plays an indispensable role in topological classifications as well as in the understanding of the origin of bulk or boundary flat bands. In this work, we generalize the chiral symmetry and introduce a concept termed sub-chiral symmetry.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Chiral symmetry plays an indispensable role in topological classifications as well as in the understanding of the origin of bulk or boundary flat bands. The conventional definition of chiral symmetry refers to the existence of a constant unitary matrix anticommuting with the Hamiltonian. As a constant unitary matrix has constant eigenvectors, boundary flat bands enforced by chiral symmetry, which share the same eigenvectors with the chiral symmetry operator, are known to carry fixed (pseudo)spin polarizations and be featureless in quantum geometry. In this work, we generalize the chiral symmetry and introduce a concept termed sub-chiral symmetry. Unlike the conventional chiral symmetry operator defined as constant, the sub-chiral symmetry operator depends on partial components of the momentum vector, so as its eigenvectors. We show that topological gapped or gapless systems without the chiral symmetry but with the sub-chiral symmetry can support boundary flat bands, which exhibit topological spin textures and quantized Berry phases. We expect that such intriguing boundary flat bands could give rise to a variety of exotic physics in the presence of interactions or disorders.

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