Paper 3: Dissipative Softening of Chern Plateaus

Artifact: source draft plus extracted markdown notes.

Contents

• chern_plateaus_final.docx as the canonical extraction source.
• chern plateaus.pdf as the layout-equivalent companion artifact.
• paper3 - dissipative softening of chern plateaus.tex as the editable TeX recreation of the paper.
• paper3 - dissipative softening of chern plateaus.md for near-full markdown notes with equations, figures, and appendices.
• paper3_qwz_common.py plus paper3_figure1_band_structure.py through paper3_figure5_thermal_comparison.py for script-based figure regeneration.
• figures/ for the regenerated figure assets.

Claim Posture

This paper is best treated as an external condensed-matter/topological-response analogue. It sharpens the language around Berry curvature, Chern transitions, Lindblad dephasing, and experimentally testable broadening signatures, but it does not by itself establish a Spin(2,3) material realization.

Before using this paper as framework evidence, compare its claims against ../../kernels/topological.md, ../../kernels/dynamics.md, ../../kernels/consistency.md, and ../../research/topological-dissipation/README.md.

Direct PDF text extraction was not available in this environment. The markdown notes were therefore extracted from the docx, while the PDF was spot-checked only at the metadata level: it is a Word-exported, 11-page companion and is treated as layout-equivalent unless a later manual comparison finds a mismatch.

The current session did not expose a local LaTeX compiler (pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, or tectonic), so the .tex source was recreated but not compiled here.