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Classification of topological insulators and superconductors out of equilibrium

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

McGinley, Maximilian  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3122-2207
Cooper, NR 

Abstract

We establish the existence of a topological classification of many-particle quantum systems undergoing unitary time evolution. The classification naturally inherits phenomenology familiar from equilibrium -- it is robust against disorder and interactions, and exhibits a non-equilibrium bulk-boundary correspondence, which connects bulk topological properties to the entanglement spectrum. We explicitly construct a non-equilibrium classification of non-interacting fermionic systems with non-spatial symmetries in all spatial dimensions (the `ten-fold way'), which differs from its equilibrium counterpart. Direct physical consequences of our classification are discussed, including important ramifications for the use of topological zero-energy bound states in quantum information technologies.

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Keywords

cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mes-hall

Journal Title

Physical Review B

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Journal ISSN

2469-9950
2469-9969

Volume Title

99

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P009565/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K030094/1)
Simons Foundation (511029)
Simons Foundation