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In this note we present the Greens functions and density of states for the most frequently encountered 2D lattices: square, triangular, honeycomb, kagome, and Lieb lattice. Though the results are well know, we hope that their derivation performed in a uniform way is of some pedagogical value.
It is shown that the Greens function on a finite lattice in arbitrary space dimension can be obtained from that of an infinite lattice by means of translation operator. Explicit examples are given for one- and two-dimensional lattices.
Since the breakthrough of twistronics a plethora of topological phenomena in two dimensions has appeared, specially relating topology and electronic correlations. These systems can be typically analyzed in terms of lattice models of increasing complexity using Greens function techniques. In this work we introduce a general method to obtain the boundary Greens function of such models taking advantage of the numerical Faddeev-LeVerrier algorithm to circumvent some analytical constraints of previous works. As an illustration we apply our formalism to analyze the edge features of Chern insulators, topological superconductors as the Kitaev square lattice and the Checkerboard lattice in the flat band topological regime. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated by comparison to standard recursive Greens function calculations.
We present a further development of methods for analytical calculations of Greens functions of lattice fermions based on recurrence relations. Applying it to tight-binding systems and topological superconductors in different dimensions we obtain a number of new results. In particular we derive an explicit expression for arbitrary Greens function of an open Kitaev chain and discover non-local fermionic corner states in a 2D p-wave superconductor.
We show how few-particle Greens functions can be calculated efficiently for models with nearest-neighbor hopping, for infinite lattices in any dimension. As an example, for one dimensional spinless fermions with both nearest-neighbor and second nearest-neighbor interactions, we investigate the ground states for up to 5 fermions. This allows us not only to find the stability region of various bound complexes, but also to infer the phase diagram at small but finite concentrations.
Inspired by the recent experimental observation of topological superconductivity in ferromagnetic chains, we consider a dilute 2D lattice of magnetic atoms deposited on top of a superconducting surface with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that the studied system supports a generalization of $p_x+ip_y$ superconductivity and that its topological phase diagram contains Chern numbers higher than $xi/a$ $(gg1)$, where $xi$ is the superconducting coherence length and $a$ is the distance between the magnetic atoms. The signatures of nontrivial topology can be observed by STM spectroscopy in finite-size islands.