Topological Band Theory for High-Dimensional Parameter Spaces

Abstract

We study the topological band theory of quantum Hall systems in which the adiabatic flux parameters of an external gauge potential form a high-dimensional manifold. This situation arises both for strongly correlated matter on spatial Riemann surfaces of genus $g>1$, as well as in the formal study of matter on compact oriented manifolds of dimension $4\ell+2 = 2p$ coupled to $p$-form gauge potentials. In these cases, the underlying topological invariants defined over the parameter space are significantly richer than the low-dimensional (i.e., two-dimensional) case and involve both the curvature (i.e., first Chern class) as well as higher order curvature invariants. These higher curvature invariants correspond to topologically protected contributions to Kubo-like formulae, constructed from correlation functions of the physical current operators. We illustrate these general considerations with an explicit example from hyperbolic band theory based on the genus-two Bolza Riemann surface, a case which has recently been simulated on a synthetic-dimension platform.