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Classifying bulk-edge anomalies in the Dirac Hamiltonian

Hansueli Jud
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We study the Dirac Hamiltonian in dimension two with a mass term and a large momentum regularization, and show that bulk-edge correspondence fails. Despite a well defined bulk topological index --the Chern number--, the number of edge modes depends on the boundary condition. The origin of this anomaly is rooted in the unbounded nature of the spectrum. It is detected with Levinson's theorem from scattering theory and quantified via an anomalous winding number at infinite energy, dubbed ghost charge. First we classify, up to equivalence, all self-adjoint boundary conditions, using Schubert cell decomposition of a Grassmanian. Then, we investigate which ones are anomalous. We expand the scattering amplitude near infinite energy, for which a dominant scale captures the asymptotic winding number. Remarkably, this can be achieved for every self-adjoint boundary condition, leading to an exhaustive anomaly classification. It shows that anomalies are ubiquitous and stable. Boundary condition with a ghost charge of 2 is also revealed within the process.
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hal-04569536 , version 1 (06-05-2024)

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Hansueli Jud, Clément Tauber. Classifying bulk-edge anomalies in the Dirac Hamiltonian. 2024. ⟨hal-04569536⟩
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