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Topological insulators are characterized by insulating bulk and conducting surface, the latter is a necessity consequence of the nontrivial topology of the wavefunctions forming the valence band. This chapter gives a historical overview of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yoichi Ando

We discuss some bulk-surfaces gapped Hamiltonians on a lattice with corners and propose a periodic table for topological invariants related to corner states aimed at studies of higher-order topological insulators. Our table is based on four…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Shin Hayashi

We propose a unified framework, dubbed topological word, for the complete non-Abelian bulk-boundary correspondence in multigap non-Abelian topological insulators. Composed by an ordered sequence of letters, each a non-Abelian charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Zhenming Zhang , Tianyu Li , Wei Yi

Nodal superconductors without inversion symmetry exhibit nontrivial topological properties, manifested by topologically protected flat-band edge states. Here we study the effects of breaking translational symmetry, crucial to the definition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-07 Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

We prove a general theorem on the relation between the bulk topological quantum number and the edge states in two dimensional insulators. It is shown that whenever there is a topological order in bulk, characterized by a non-vanishing Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Liang Qi , Yong-Shi Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Spin-orbit coupled materials have attracted revived prominent research interest as of late, especially due their direct connection with topological notions. Arguably, a hallmark of this pursuit is formed by the concept of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Robert-Jan Slager

Topological insulators are characterized by specially protected conduction on their outer boundaries. We show that the protected edge conduction exhibited by 2-D topological insulators (and also Chern insulators) is independent of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Quansheng Wu , Liang Du , Vincent E. Sacksteder

The theory of topological insulators and superconductors has mostly focused on non-interacting and gapped systems. This review article discusses topological phases that are either gapless or interacting. We discuss recent progress in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-04 Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

In the past few years materials with protected gapless surface (edge) states have risen to the central stage of condensed matter physics. Almost all discussions centered around topological insulators and superconductors, which possess full…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-01 Fa Wang , Dung-Hai Lee

We consider topologically non-trivial interface Hamiltonians, which find several applications in materials science and geophysical fluid flows. The non-trivial topology manifests itself in the existence of topologically protected,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Guillaume Bal

We propose the concept of `topological Hamiltonian' for topological insulators and superconductors in interacting systems. The eigenvalues of topological Hamiltonian are significantly different from the physical energy spectra, but we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Zhong Wang , Binghai Yan

Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, the concept of non-linear second-order topological insulators, a class of bulk insulators with quantized Wannier centers and a bulk polarization directly controlled by the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

2D topological insulators promise novel approaches towards electronic, spintronic, and quantum device applications. This is owing to unique features of their electronic band structure, in which bulk-boundary correspondences enforces the…

Recently, hyperbolic lattices that tile the negatively curved hyperbolic plane emerged as a new paradigm of synthetic matter, and their energy levels were characterized by a band structure in a four- (or higher-)dimensional momentum space.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 David M. Urwyler , Patrick M. Lenggenhager , Igor Boettcher , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert , Tomáš Bzdušek

In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and bulk topological superconductors. The basic concepts,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-12 Yoichi Ando , Liang Fu

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We show that the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological insulators can be modified in the presence of non-Hermiticity. We consider a one-dimensional tight-binding model with gain and loss as well as long-range hopping. The system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Tony E. Lee

This paper analyzes Floquet topological insulators resulting from the time-harmonic irradiation of electromagnetic waves on two dimensional materials such as graphene. We analyze the bulk and edge topologies of approximations to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Guillaume Bal , Daniel Massatt

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu