Topological order and absence of band insulators at integer filling in non-symmorphic crystals

Band insulators appear in a crystalline system only when the filling—the number of electrons per unit cell and spin projection—is an integer. At fractional filling, an insulating phase that preserves all symmetries is a Mott insulator; that is, it is either gapless or, if gapped, exhibits fractional...

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