Ground-State Degeneracy of Correlated Insulators with Edges
Abstract
Using the topological flux insertion procedure, the ground-state degeneracy of an insulator on a periodic lattice with filling factor ν=p/q was found to be at least q-fold. Applying the same argument in a lattice with edges, we show that the degeneracy is modified by the additional edge density νE associated with the open boundaries. In particular, we demonstrate that these edge corrections may even make an insulator with integer bulk filling degenerate.
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