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EPL
Volume 106, Number 6, June 2014
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| Article Number | 60002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/106/60002 | |
| Published online | 20 June 2014 | |
Parallel transport and band theory in crystals
Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon - 47 allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France
Received: 24 March 2014
Accepted: 3 June 2014
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.
PACS: 03.65.Vf – Phases: geometric; dynamic or topological / 71.20.-b – Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids / 73.43.Cd – Theory and modeling
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