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Hyperbolic Nodal Band Structures and Knot Invariants
by Marcus Stålhammar, Lukas Rødland, Gregory Arone, Jan Carl Budich, Emil J. Bergholtz
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Emil Bergholtz · Lukas Rødland · Marcus Stålhammar |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05858v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2019-07-17 |
| Date submitted: | 2019-07-05 02:00 |
| Submitted by: | Stålhammar, Marcus |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We extend the list of known band structure topologies to include a large family of hyperbolic nodal links and knots, occurring both in conventional Hermitian systems where their stability relies on discrete symmetries, and in the dissipative non-Hermitian realm where the knotted nodal lines are generic and thus stable towards any small perturbation. We show that these nodal structures, taking the forms of Turk's head knots, appear in both continuum- and lattice models with relatively short-ranged hopping that is within experimental reach. To determine the topology of the nodal structures, we devise an efficient algorithm for computing the Alexander polynomial, linking numbers and higher order Milnor invariants based on an approximate and well controlled parameterisation of the knot.
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List of changes
* Addition of a new subsection, Sec. 2.3, including further more exotic examples of hyperbolic nodal structures, Turk's head knots, and a discussion on transitions between knots with accompanying figures.
* Revised beginning of Sec. 3.
* Added more physical discussions in several sections.
* Treating two additional examples of Brunnian links in Sec. 3.4.
* Highlighting in a clearer manner what is new and how this work differs from and complements other works.
* Correcting various typos.
* Added several references.
Published as SciPost Phys. 7, 019 (2019)