2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Investigation of the field theories for topological insulators and unified models of elementary particles
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24540247
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
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| Research Institution | Ibaraki University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 場の理論 / トポロジカル絶縁体 / 量子異常 / 格子模型 / 位相不変量 / 指数定理 / エネルギー固有値 / 一様磁場 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Topological insulators have a gap that is stable under continuous deformation of parameters. It is known that a bulk topological insulator is characterized by a topological invariant called such as the Chern number. In finite topological insulators there appear characteristic edge states at the surface and the gap closes. To get insight into the phenomena and seek for possible application to unified theories of elementary particles we have introduced periodic lattice models of topological insulators and investigated the response of energy epectra with applied electromagnetic fields. To compare field theoretical approaches we have also studied the eigenvalue problem for Dirac operators on uniformly magnetized tori in arbitary dimensions and give a construction of exact zero-mode solutions.
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| Free Research Field |
素粒子論と場の理論
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