Abstract
We review recent results concerning the localization of gapped periodic systems of independent fermions, as, e.g., electrons in Chern and Quantum Hall insulators. We show that there is a “localization dichotomy” which shows some analogies with phase transitions in Statistical Mechanics: either there exists a system of exponentially localized composite Wannier functions for the Fermi projector, or any possible system of composite Wannier functions yields a diverging expectation value for the squared position operator. This fact is largely model-independent, covering both tight-binding and continuous models. The results are discussed with emphasis on the main ideas and the broader context, avoiding most of the technical details.
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