Topological property of a $t_{2g}^5$ system with a honeycomb lattice structure

Abstract

A $t_{2g}^5$ system with a honeycomb lattice structure such as Na${}_2$IrO${}_3$ was firstly proposed as a topological insulator even though Na${}_2$IrO${}_3$ and its isostructural materials in nature have been turned out to be a Mott insulator with magnetic order. Here we theoretically revisit the topological property based on a minimal tight-binding Hamiltonian for three $t_{2g}$ bands incorporating a strong spin orbit coupling and two types of the first nearest neighbor (NN) hopping channel between transition metal ions, i.e., the hopping ($t_1$) mediated by edge-shared ligands and the direct hopping ($t_1^{\prime }$) between $t_{2g}$ orbitals via $dd\sigma$ bonding. We demonstrate that the topological phase transition takes place by varying only these hopping parameters with the relative strength parametrized by $\theta$, i.e., $t_1=t\cos \theta$ and $t_1^{\prime }=t\sin \theta$. We also explore the effect of the second and third NN hopping channels, and the trigonal distortion on the topological phase for the whole range of $\theta$. Furthermore, we examine the electronic and topological phases in the presence of on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$. Employing the cluster perturbation theory, we show that, with increasing $U$, a trivial or topological band insulator in the absence of $U$ can be transferred into a Mott insulator with nontrivial or trivial band topology. We also show that the main effect of the Hund's coupling can be understood simply as the renormalization of $U$. We briefly discuss the relevance of our results to the existing materials.

arXiv comment17 pages, 11 figures

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