Comment on "Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence"

  • Robert-Jan Slager
  • , Adrien Bouhon
  • , Nur Unal*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We comment on the recent paper ``Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence" by Tianyu Li and Haiping Hu, Nat. Comm. 14, 6418 (2023). Apart from the fact that the authors unjustly imply to study multi-gap topology in Floquet systems for the first time, only known homotopic relations are presented. While such insights are used to present interesting Floquet phenomena and phases, which is an attractive result in itself, they cannot be used to deduce the total bulk characterization in the dynamical context without further proof. In fact, the authors essentially rephrase a Zak phase description. These results should in particular be contrasted to earlier results, arXiv:2208.12824, in which static-compatible Zak phases {\it and} dynamical Dirac strings were shown to be able to distinguish rather similar non-Abelian Floquet phases in dimensional systems. As a result, the claim of a sharp multifold bulk-edge correspondence cannot be concluded from the given arguments.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherarXiv
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jun 2024
Externally publishedYes

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