TOPOLOGICAL EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORIES FOR DIRAC FERMIONS FROM INDEX THEOREM

DOI10.1142/S0217979213501932zbMath1284.81261arXiv1303.6468MaRDI QIDQ5407828

Giandomenico Palumbo, Annalisa Marzuoli, Roberto Catenacci

Publication date: 8 April 2014

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6468

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac fermionstopological insulatorseffective topological field theoryindex theorems in condensed matter systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12)

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