%0 Report %D 2019 %T Zero modes and low-energy resolvent expansion for three dimensional Schrodinger operators with point interactions %A Raffaele Scandone %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02449 %0 Journal Article %J Communications in Mathematical Physics %D 2016 %T Z2 Invariants of Topological Insulators as Geometric Obstructions %A Domenico Fiorenza %A Domenico Monaco %A Gianluca Panati %X

We consider a gapped periodic quantum system with time-reversal symmetry of fermionic (or odd) type, i.e. the time-reversal operator squares to $-\mathbb{1}$. We investigate the existence of periodic and time-reversal invariant Bloch frames in dimensions 2 and 3. In 2d, the obstruction to the existence of such a frame is shown to be encoded in a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued topological invariant, which can be computed by a simple algorithm. We prove that the latter agrees with the Fu-Kane index. In 3d, instead, four $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariants emerge from the construction, again related to the Fu-Kane-Mele indices. When no topological obstruction is present, we provide a constructive algorithm yielding explicitly a periodic and time-reversal invariant Bloch frame. The result is formulated in an abstract setting, so that it applies both to discrete models and to continuous ones.

%B Communications in Mathematical Physics %V 343 %P 1115–1157 %8 May %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-015-2552-0 %R 10.1007/s00220-015-2552-0 %0 Journal Article %J International Mathematics Research Notices %D 2014 %T Zeros of Large Degree Vorob'ev-Yablonski Polynomials via a Hankel Determinant Identity %A Marco Bertola %A Thomas Bothner %B International Mathematics Research Notices %V rnu239 %G eng