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arxiv: 1403.2836 · v2 · pith:AL435KZWnew · submitted 2014-03-12 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · cond-mat.mes-hall· math-ph· math.MP

Parallel Transport and Band Theory in Crystals

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.mes-hallmath-phmath.MP
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We show that different conventions for Bloch Hamiltonians on non-Bravais lattices correspond to different natural definitions of parallel transport of Bloch eigenstates. Generically the Berry curvatures associated with these parallel transports differ, while physical quantities are naturally related to a canonical choice of the parallel transport.

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