MG14 - Talk detail |
Participant |
Hughes, Taylor | |||||||
Institution |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1101 W Green St. - Urbana - Illinois - USA | |||||||
Session |
QF2 |
Accepted |
Yes |
Order |
2 |
Time |
14:50 | 20' |
Talk |
Oral abstract |
Title |
Torsional Anomalies, Hall viscosity, and Dislocation Defects in Fermionic Matter | |||||
Coauthors | Taylor L. Hughes, Robert G. Leigh, and Onkar Parrikar | |||||||
Abstract |
We study the properties of a class of fermionic systems when coupled to electromagnetic and gravitational sources, including torsion and curvature. By using the technology of anomaly polynomials, we derive the parity-odd effective action of a massive Dirac fermion in d=2+1 and d=4+1, which provide simple model systems that realize fermion topological phases. We discuss the covariant anomalies of the corresponding boundary/domain-wall states, from a Callan-Harvey anomaly-inflow, as well as a Hamiltonian spectral flow point of view. We also discuss the applicability of our results to other systems such as chiral fermions. Finally, using dimensional reduction from d=4+1, we derive the effective action for a d=3+1 time-reversal invariant topological insulator in the presence of torsion and curvature, and discuss its various physical consequences including the properties in the presence of curvature and torsional defects. |
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