Topological Insulators in the Honeycomb Lattice
arXiv:1710.02788 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.043614
Abstract
We investigate realizations of topological insulators with spin-1 bosons loaded in a honeycomb optical lattice and subjected to a spin-orbit coupling - a situation which can be realized experimentally using cold atomic gases. In this paper, we focus on the topological properties of the single-particle band structure, namely Chern numbers (lattice with periodic boundary conditions) and edge states (lattice with strip geometry). While spin-orbit couplings always lead to time-reversal symmetric Hubbard models, and thereby to topologically trivial band structures, suitable spin-orbit couplings can break time reversal symmetry and lead to topologically non-trivial bulk band structures and to edge states in the strip geometry. In addition, we show that one can trigger a series of topological transitions (i.e. integer changes of the Chern numbers) that are specific to the geometry of the honeycomb lattice by varying a single parameter in the Hamiltonian.
arXiv comment12 pages, 8 figures
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