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Topological insulators subject to a time-symmetry-breaking perturbation are predicted to display a magneto-electric effect that causes the electric and magnetic induction fields to mix at the material's surface. This effect induces…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. A. Crosse

Despite topological protection and the absence of magnetic impurities, two-dimensional topological insulators display quantized conductance only in surprisingly short channels, which can be as short as 100 nm for atomically thin materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Pietro Novelli , Fabio Taddei , Andre K. Geim , Marco Polini

A concrete strategy is presented for generating strong topological insulators in $d+d'$ dimensions which have quantized physics in $d$ dimensions. Here, $d$ counts the physical and $d'$ the virtual dimensions. It consists of seeking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 Emil Prodan

Recently discovered photonic higher-order topological insulators enable unprecedented flexibility in the robust localization of light in structures of different dimensionality. While the potential of the two-dimensional systems is currently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Valerii I. Kachin , Maxim A. Gorlach

Thermoelectric coefficients of an ultra-thin topological insulator are presented here. The hybridization between top and bottom surface states of a topological insulator plays a significant role. In absence of magnetic field, thermopower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 SK Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari

The class of topological insulator materials is one of the frontier topics of condensed matter physics. The great success of this field is due to the conceptual breakthroughs in theories for topological electronic states and is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We extend the coupled-wire construction of quantum Hall phases, and search for fractional topological insulating states in models of weakly coupled wires at zero external magnetic field. Focussing on systems beyond double copies of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tobias Meng , Eran Sela

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We report the discovery of an in plane quantization (IPQ) state in trilayer magnetic topological insulators, characterized by a quantized longitudinal conductivity of e2/h under strong in-plane magnetic fields. This state emerges at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Ting-Hsun Yang , Yaochen Li , Peng Zhang , Penghao Zhu , Hung-Yu Yang , Eun Sang Choi , Kaiwei Chen , Wenqiang Cui , Kin Wong , Peng Deng , Gang Qiu , Kang L. Wang

The surface of a 3D topological insulator is conducting and the topologically nontrivial nature of the surface states is observed in experiments. It is the aim of this paper to review and analyze experimental observations with respect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 M. Veldhorst , M. Snelder , M. Hoek , C. G. Molenaar , D. P. Leusink , A. A. Golubov , H. Hilgenkamp , A. Brinkman

We show that the bulk winding number characterizing one-dimensional topological insulators with chiral symmetry can be detected from the displacement of a single particle, observed via losses. Losses represent the effect of repeated weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Tibor Rakovszky , Janos K. Asboth , Andrea Alberti

The surface states of a topological insulator in a fine-tuned magnetic field are ideal candidates for realizing a topological metal which is protected against disorder. Its signatures are (1) a conductance plateau in long wires in a finely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Quansheng Wu , Vincent E. Sacksteder

It is shown that the presence of matrix dipole moments induced by external electric fields can modify the Hall response in two dimensional Topological insulators. In the case of the Quantum Anomalous Hall effect the induced transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alberto Cortijo

Topological insulating states in two-dimensional (2D) materials are ideal systems to study different types of quantized response signals due to their in gap metallic states. Very recently, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect was discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Junwen Lai , Xiangyang Liu , Jie Zhan , Tianye Yu , Peitao Liu , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the half-quantized Hall effect phase in a three-dimensional (3D) semi-magnetic topological insulator [M. Mogi et al., Nature Physics 18, 390 (2022)], we propose a scheme for realizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Fang Qin , Ching Hua Lee , Rui Chen

The discovery of the quantum Hall effect founded the field of topological condensed matter physics. Its amazingly accurate quantisation of the Hall conductance, now enshrined in quantum metrology, is topologically protected: it is stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Benoit Douçot , Dima Kovrizhin , Roderich Moessner

Topological insulators have become one of the most active research areas in condensed matter physics. This article reviews progress on the topic of electronic correlations effects in the two-dimensional case, with a focus on systems with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-08 M. Hohenadler , F. F. Assaad

Studying the influence of breaking time-reversal symmetry on topological insulator surface states is an important problem of current interest in condensed matter physics and could provide a route toward proof-of-concept spintronic devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Joon Sue Lee , Anthony Richardella , Robert D. Fraleigh , Chao-xing Liu , Weiwei Zhao , Nitin Samarth

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in recent years. However, identifying a universal topological invariant capable of characterizing higher-order topology remains challenging. Here, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Long Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Jian-Jun Liu , Ying-Tao Zhang