Bulk-corner correspondence of time-reversal symmetric insulators: deduplicating real-space invariants

Abstract

The topology of insulators is usually revealed through the presence of gapless boundary modes: this is the so-called bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the many-body wavefunction of a crystalline insulator is endowed with additional topological properties that do not yield surface spectral features, but manifest themselves as (fractional) quantized electronic charges localized at the crystal boundaries. Here, we formulate such bulk-corner correspondence for the physical relevant case of materials with time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. To so do we develop "partial" real-space invariants that can be neither expressed in terms of Berry phases nor using symmetry-based indicators. These new crystalline invariants govern the (fractional) quantized corner charges both of isolated material structures and of heterostructures without gapless interface modes. We also show that the partial real-space invariants are able to detect all time-reversal symmetric topological phases of the recently discovered fragile type.

arXiv comment20 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

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