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arXiv:2405.05323 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Higher Berry curvature from the wave function. II. Locally parametrized states beyond one dimension

Ophelia Evelyn Sommer, Ashvin Vishwanath, Xueda Wen

Published Apr 7, 2025• 8 citations
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Abstract

We propose a systematic wave-function-based approach to construct topological invariants for families of lattice systems that are short-range entangled using local parameter spaces. This construction is particularly suitable when given a family of tensor networks that can be viewed as the ground states of $d$-dimensional lattice systems, for which we construct the closed $(d+2)$-form higher Berry curvature, which is a generalization of the well-known 2-form Berry curvature. Such $(d+2)$-form higher Berry curvature characterizes a flow of $(d+1)$-form higher Berry curvature in the system. Our construction is equally suitable for constructing other higher pumps, such as the (higher) Thouless pump in the presence of a global onsite $\mathrm{U}(1)$ symmetry, which corresponds to a closed $d$-form. The cohomology classes of such higher differential forms are topological invariants and are expected to be quantized for short-range entangled states. We illustrate our construction with exactly solvable lattice models that are in nontrivial higher Berry classes in $d=2$.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.111.155110

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We study generalizations of the Berry phase for quantum lattice systems in arbitrary dimensions. For a smooth family of gapped ground states in d dimensions, we define a closed d + 2-form on the parameter space, which generalizes the curvature of the Berry connection. Its cohomology class is a topological invariant of the family. When the family is equivariant under the action of a compact Lie group G, topological invariants take values in the equivariant cohomology of the parameter space. These invariants unify and generalize the Hall conductance and the Thouless pump. A key role in these constructions is played by a certain differential graded Fréchet–Lie algebra attached to any quantum lattice system. As a by-product, we describe ambiguities in charge densities and conserved currents for arbitrary lattice systems with rapidly decaying interactions.
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This paper is concerned with the physics of parametrized gapped quantum many-body systems, which can be viewed as a generalization of conventional topological phases of matter. In such systems, rather than considering a single Hamiltonian, one considers a family of Hamiltonians that depend continuously on some parameters. After discussing the notion of phases of parametrized systems, we formulate a bulk-boundary correspondence for an important bulk quantity, the Kapustin-Spodyneiko higher Berry curvature, first in one spatial dimension and then in arbitrary dimension. This clarifies the physical interpretation of the higher Berry curvature, which in one spatial dimension is a flow of (ordinary) Berry curvature. In ddd dimensions, the higher Berry curvature is a flow of $(d\ensuremath{-}1)$-dimensional higher Berry curvature. Based on this, we discuss one-dimensional systems that pump Chern number to/from spatial boundaries, resulting in anomalous boundary modes featuring isolated Weyl points. In higher dimensions, there are pumps of the analogous quantized invariants obtained by integrating the higher Berry curvature. We also discuss the consequences for parametrized systems of Kitaev's proposal that invertible phases are classified by a generalized cohomology theory, and emphasize the role of the suspension isomorphism in generating new examples of parametrized systems from known invertible phases. Finally, we present a pair of general quantum pumping constructions, based on physical pictures introduced by Kitaev, which take as input a ddd-dimensional parametrized system, and produce new (d+1)(d+1)(d+1)-dimensional parametrized systems. These constructions are useful for generating examples, and we conjecture that one of the constructions realizes the suspension isomorphism in a generalized cohomology theory of invertible phases.
A one-parameter family of invertible states gives a topological transport phenomenon, similar to the Thouless pumping. As a natural generalization of this, we can consider a family of invertible states parametrized by some topological space XXX. This is called a higher pump. It is conjectured that a (1+1)(1+1)(1+1)-dimensional bosonic invertible state parametrized by XXX is classified by H3(X;Z){\mathrm{H}}^{3}(X;\mathbb{Z})H3(X;Z). In this paper, we construct two higher pumping models parametrized by $X=\mathbb{R}{P}^{2}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{S}^{1}$ and $X=\mathrm{L}(3,1)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{S}^{1}$ that corresponds to the torsion part of H3(X;Z){\mathrm{H}}^{3}(X;\mathbb{Z})H3(X;Z). As a consequence of the nontriviality as a family, we find that a quantum mechanical system with a nontrivial discrete Berry phase is pumped to the boundary of the (1+1)(1+1)(1+1)-dimensional system. We also study higher pump phenomena by using matrix product states, and construct a higher pump invariant which takes value in a torsion part of H3(X;Z){\mathrm{H}}^{3}(X;\mathbb{Z})H3(X;Z). This is a higher analog of the ordinary discrete Berry phase that takes value in the torsion part of H2(X;Z){\mathrm{H}}^{2}(X;\mathbb{Z})H2(X;Z). In order to define the higher pump invariant, we utilize the smooth Deligne cohomology and its integration theory. We confirm that the higher pump invariant of the model has a nontrivial value.
Higher Berry curvature (HBC) is the proposed generalization of Berry curvature to infinitely extended systems. Heuristically, HBC captures the flow of local Berry curvature in a system. Here, we provide a simple formula for computing the HBC for extended d=1 systems at the level of wave functions using the Schmidt decomposition. We also find a corresponding formula for matrix product states and show that for translationally invariant matrix product states this gives rise to a quantized invariant. We demonstrate our approach with an exactly solvable model and numerical calculations for generic models using the infinite density matrix renormalization group algorithm.
In this work, we study the connection between two subjects: the space of conformal boundary conditions in boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) and the space of gapped systems characterized by higher Berry phases. We explore this connection by analyzing multi-parameter spectral flow in Dirac fermion BCFTs with continuously parametrized conformal boundary conditions, which are introduced by coupling a CFT to a family of gapped systems. When the gapped systems belong to a nontrivial higher Berry class, the associated conformal boundary conditions induce a flow of the ordinary Berry curvature, resulting in a Chern number pump in the Fock space of the BCFT. This phenomenon is the BCFT analog of Berry curvature flow in one-dimensional parametrized gapped systems, where the flow occurs in real space. Building on this correspondence, we introduce the notions of higher Berry curvature and higher Berry invariants within the BCFT framework. Our results provide a new perspective for studying the topological properties of families of conformal boundary states and gapped ground states: if a family of gapped states belongs to a nontrivial higher Berry class, then the corresponding entanglement Hamiltonians exhibit a multi-parameter spectral flow that carries Berry curvature in the Fock space.