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Deriving the non-abelian Berry connection
I'm slightly confused about a manipulation in Section 1.5.4 of Tong's notes on the Quantum Hall Effect.
This concerns the derivation of the non-abelian Berry phase.
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We have an $N$-dimensional ...
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Noncontractable loops in the 2D Brilluoin zone and the Chern number
I'm getting quite twisted around trying to figure out what all is quantized exactly in IQH looking at it from the Chern number perspective.
Let's suppose quantum hall on a torus -- I can apply a large ...
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Questions about Berry Phase
I'm learning about the Berry Phase from the original paper, and from the TIFR Infosys Lectures The Quantum Hall Effect by David Tong (2016).
I have some questions regarding the original derivation of ...
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