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Building blocks of topological quantum chemistry: Elementary band representations

Building blocks of topological quantum chemistry: Elementary band representations

The link between chemical orbitals described by local degrees of freedom and band theory, which is defined in momentum space, was proposed by Zak several decades ago for spinless systems with and without time-reversal in his theory of "elementary" band representations. In Nature 547, 298-305 (2017), we introduced the generalization …