Benjamin Moy

Chern insulator boundary criticality

We investigate signatures of chirality at Chern insulator transitions in the presence of a boundary. The transition between a trivial insulator and a Chern insulator with Chern number $C=1$ is described by a massless Dirac fermion whose parity anomaly gives a critical Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}=\frac{1}{2}\frac{e^2...