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

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Main Authors: Slager, Robert-Jan, Bouhon, Adrien, Ünal, F. Nur
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author Slager, Robert-Jan
Bouhon, Adrien
Ünal, F. Nur
author_facet Slager, Robert-Jan
Bouhon, Adrien
Ünal, F. Nur
contents We comment on the recent paper ``Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence" by Tianyu Li and Haiping Hu, Nat. Comm. {\bf 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 {\it distinguish} rather similar non-Abelian Floquet phases in $2+1$ dimensional systems. As a result, the claim of a sharp multifold bulk-edge correspondence cannot be concluded from the given arguments.
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spellingShingle Comment on "Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence"
Slager, Robert-Jan
Bouhon, Adrien
Ünal, F. Nur
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Gases
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
We comment on the recent paper ``Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence" by Tianyu Li and Haiping Hu, Nat. Comm. {\bf 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 {\it distinguish} rather similar non-Abelian Floquet phases in $2+1$ dimensional systems. As a result, the claim of a sharp multifold bulk-edge correspondence cannot be concluded from the given arguments.
title Comment on "Floquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence"
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Gases
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12782