Static electric field in one-dimensional insulators without boundaries

In this brief report, we show that in a one-dimensional insulating system with periodic boundary conditions, the coefficient of the θ term in the effective theory is not only determined by the topological index ∫i∑[superscript α]∈[superscript occ]〈u[superscript k]α|∂/∂k|u[superscript kα]〉dk. Specifi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Kuang-Ting, Lee, Patrick A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69140
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-8157