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arxiv 2107.09039 v2 pith:PZ35UCHY submitted 2021-07-19 cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.quant-gasmath-phmath.MPquant-ph

Engineering geometrically flat Chern bands with Fubini-Study K\"ahler structure

classification cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.quant-gasmath-phmath.MPquant-ph
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We describe a systematic method to construct models of Chern insulators whose Berry curvature and the quantum volume form coincide and are flat over the Brillouin zone; such models are known to be suitable for hosting fractional Chern insulators. The bands of Chern insulator models where the Berry curvature and the quantum volume form coincide, and are nowhere vanishing, are known to induce the structure of a K\"ahler manifold in momentum space, and thus we are naturally led to define K\"ahler bands to be Chern bands satisfying such properties. We show how to construct a geometrically flat K\"ahler band, with Chern number equal to minus the total number of bands in the system, using the idea of K\"ahler quantization and properties of Bergman kernel asymptotics. We show that, with our construction, the geometrical properties become flatter as the total number of bands in the system is increased; we also show the no-go theorem that it is not possible to construct geometrically perfectly flat K\"ahler bands with a finite number of bands. We give an explicit realization of this construction in terms of theta functions and numerically confirm how the constructed K\"ahler bands become geometrically flat as we increase the number of bands. We also show the effect of truncating hoppings at a finite length, which will generally result in deviation from a perfect K\"ahler band but does not seem to seriously affect the flatness of the geometrical properties.

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