Quantum Spin Hall Effect in a Three-orbital Tight-binding Hamiltonian

Abstract

We consider the quantum spin hall state in a three orbital model due to certain loop current order induced by spin-dependent interactions. This type of order is motivated by the loop current model which is proposed to describe the pseudogap phase of cuprates. It is shown that this model has nontrivial Chern parity by directly counting the zeros of the Pfaffian of time reversal operator. By connecting to the second order Chern number, we explicitly show the singularities of wave-functions and how they depend on gauge choices. In this case, it is shown that the Berry phase can be mapped to Nonabelian instanton.