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Effective field theories for interacting boundaries of 3D topological crystalline insulators through bosonisation
Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo1, Giandomenico Palumbo2, Jiannis K Pachos3
1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. psalgadoreb@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Here, we analyse two Dirac fermion species in two spatial dimensions in the presence of general quartic contact interactions. By employing functional bosonisation techniques, we demonstrate that depending on the couplings of the fermion interactions the system can be effectively described by a rich variety of topologically massive gauge theories. Among these effective theories, we obtain an extended Chern-Simons theory with higher order derivatives as well as two coupled Chern-Simons theories. Our formalism allows for a general description of interacting fermions emerging, for example, at the gapped boundary of three-dimensional topological crystalline insulators.
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