Many-body marker for three-dimensional topological insulators with inversion symmetry
We extend the previously defined many-body marker for two-dimensional Z2 topological insulators [I. Gilardoni et al., Phys. Rev. B 106, L161106 (2022)] to distinguish trivial, weak, and strong topological insulators in three dimensions, in the presence of inversion symmetry. The marker is written in terms of ground-state expectation values of position operators and can be employed to detect topological phases of interacting systems beyond mean-field approximations, e.g., within quantum Monte Carlo techniques. Here we show that the correct results of the noninteracting limit are reproduced by the many-body marker.
Authors
- Alberto Parola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7844-6916)
- Karl J. Friston
Institutions
- University of Insubria (IT)
- University of Trieste (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. B./Physical review. B
- Published
- 2025-07-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/yld5-y4cc
- Primary Topic
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00