Topological phases with broken time-reversal symmetry in pyrochlore iridates

Shigeki Onoda

RIKEN, Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, Wako, Japan

Possible topological phases in pyrochlore iridates are invistigated theoretically. An effective single-orbital tight-binding model is derived by extracting Wannier functions from first-principles band calculations on hypothetical La2Ir2O7 with varying crystal parameters, which mimics the changes only in the radius of rare-earth ions.

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