Fragile Topological Phases and Topological Order of 2D Crystalline Chern Insulators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24709v1
• Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:25:49 GMT
• Title: Fragile Topological Phases and Topological Order of 2D Crystalline Chern Insulators
• Authors: Hisham Sati, Urs Schreiber,
• Abstract summary: We classify the fragile insulator/unstable topological phases of 2D crystalline Chern materials.<n>We argue that any topological order must be reflected in the adiabatic monodromy of gapped quantum ground states.<n>We close with an outlook on the relevance for the search for topological quantum computing hardware.
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• Abstract: We apply methods of equivariant homotopy theory, which may not previously have found due attention in condensed matter physics, to classify first the fragile/unstable topological phases of 2D crystalline Chern insulator materials, and second the possible topological order of their fractional cousins. We highlight that the phases are given by the equivariant 2-Cohomotopy of the Brillouin torus of crystal momenta (with respect to wallpaper point group actions) -- which, despite the attention devoted to crystalline Chern insulators, seems not to have been considered before. Arguing then that any topological order must be reflected in the adiabatic monodromy of gapped quantum ground states over the covariantized space of these band topologies, we compute the latter in examples where this group is non-abelian, showing that any potential FQAH anyons must be localized in momentum space. We close with an outlook on the relevance for the search for topological quantum computing hardware. Mathematical details are spelled out in a supplement.

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