Multicellularity of delicate topological insulators

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Being Wannierizable is not the end of the story for topological insulators. We introduce a family of topological insulators that would be considered trivial in the paradigm set by the tenfold way, topological quantum chemistry, and the method of symmetry-based indicators. Despite having a symmetric, exponentially localized Wannier representation, each Wannier function cannot be completely localized to a single primitive unit cell in the bulk. Such multicellular topology is shown to be neither stable nor fragile, but delicate; i.e., the topology can be nullified by adding trivial bands to either valence or conduction band.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:ng-f1
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.216404
Related Identifier https://archive.materialscloud.org/communities/mcarchive
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:7r-2d
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Provenance
Creator Nelson, Aleksandra; Neupert, Titus; Bzdušek, Tomáš; Alexandradinata, Aris
Publisher Materials Cloud
Contributor Nelson, Aleksandra
Publication Year 2021
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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Language English
Resource Type info:eu-repo/semantics/other
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Discipline Materials Science and Engineering