TY - JOUR
T1 - Electromagnetic and thermal responses in topological matter
T2 - Topological terms, quantum anomalies and D-branes
AU - Furusaki, Akira
AU - Nagaosa, Naoto
AU - Nomura, Kentaro
AU - Ryu, Shinsei
AU - Takayanagi, Tadashi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Taylor Hughes, Shunji Matsuura, Joel Moore, Xiao-Liang Qi, Mike Stone, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Shou-Cheng Zhang for useful discussions. This work is supported by MEXT Grand-in-Aid Nos. 20740167, 19048008, 19048015, 21244053, 24540338, 24740211, 24654057, 24224009, Strategic International Cooperative Program (Joint Research Type) from Japan Science and Technology Agency, and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through its “Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program)”.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - We discuss the thermal (or gravitational) responses in topological superconductors and in topological phases in general. Such thermal responses (as well as electromagnetic responses for conserved charge) provide a definition of topological insulators and superconductors beyond the single-particle picture. In two-dimensional topological phases, the Strěda formula for the electric Hall conductivity is generalized to the thermal Hall conductivity. Applying this formula to the Majorana surface states of three-dimensional topological superconductors predicts cross-correlated responses between the angular momentum and thermal polarization (entropy polarization). We also discuss a use of D-branes in string theory as a systematic tool to derive all such topological terms and topological responses. In particular, we relate the Z2 index of topological insulators introduced by Kane and Mele (and its generalization to other symmetry classes and to arbitrary dimensions) to the K-theory charge of non-BPS D-branes, and vice versa. We thus establish a link between the stability of non-BPS D-branes and the topological stability of topological insulators.
AB - We discuss the thermal (or gravitational) responses in topological superconductors and in topological phases in general. Such thermal responses (as well as electromagnetic responses for conserved charge) provide a definition of topological insulators and superconductors beyond the single-particle picture. In two-dimensional topological phases, the Strěda formula for the electric Hall conductivity is generalized to the thermal Hall conductivity. Applying this formula to the Majorana surface states of three-dimensional topological superconductors predicts cross-correlated responses between the angular momentum and thermal polarization (entropy polarization). We also discuss a use of D-branes in string theory as a systematic tool to derive all such topological terms and topological responses. In particular, we relate the Z2 index of topological insulators introduced by Kane and Mele (and its generalization to other symmetry classes and to arbitrary dimensions) to the K-theory charge of non-BPS D-branes, and vice versa. We thus establish a link between the stability of non-BPS D-branes and the topological stability of topological insulators.
KW - Brane theory
KW - Electromagnetic response
KW - Quantum anomaly
KW - Thermal response
KW - Topological classification
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U2 - 10.1016/j.crhy.2013.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.crhy.2013.03.002
M3 - Short survey
AN - SCOPUS:84889578790
VL - 14
SP - 871
EP - 883
JO - Comptes Rendus Physique
JF - Comptes Rendus Physique
SN - 1631-0705
IS - 9-10
ER -