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We discuss topological properties of the ground state of spatially homogeneous ensemble of fermions. There are several classes of topologically different fermionic vacua; in each case the momentum space topology of the vacuum determines the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

We consider fermionic states bound on domain walls in a Weyl superfluid $^3$He-A and on interfaces between $^3$He-A and a fully gapped topological superfluid $^3$He-B. We demonstrate that in both cases fermionic spectrum contains Fermi arcs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-28 M. A. Silaev , G. E. Volovik

Topological media are systems whose properties are protected by topology and thus are robust to deformations of the system. In topological insulators and superconductors the bulk-surface and bulk-vortex correspondence gives rise to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-28 G. E. Volovik

The topological superfluid 3He-B provides many examples of the interplay of symmetry and topology. Here we consider the effect of magnetic field on topological properties of 3He-B. Magnetic field violates the time reversal symmetry. As a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 G. E. Volovik

There are several classes of homogeneous Fermi-systems which are characterized by the topology of the energy spectrum of fermionic quasiparticles: (1) Gapless systems with a Fermi-surface; (2) Systems with a gap in their spectrum; (3)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. E. Volovik

Superfluid 3He-A and high-temperature superconductors both have gapless fermionic quasiparticles with the "relativistic" spectrum close to the gap nodes. The interaction of these "relaitivistic" fermions with bosonic collective modes of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

Topological media are systems whose properties are protected by topology and thus are robust to deformations of the system. In topological insulators and superconductors the bulk-surface and bulk-vortex correspondence gives rise to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 T. T. Heikkila , N. B. Kopnin , G. E. Volovik

We consider topological invariant describing the vacuum states of superfluid 3He-B, which belongs to the special class of time-reversal invariant topological insulators and superfluids. Discrete symmetries important for classification of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-06 G. E. Volovik

Topological media are gapped or gapless fermionic systems, whose properties are protected by topology, and thus are robust to deformations of parameters of the system and generic. We discuss the class of gapless topological media, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-30 G. E. Volovik

Physics of topological materials have attracted much attention from both physicists and mathematicians recently. The index and the fermion number of Dirac fermions play an important role in topological insulators and topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Takashi Yanagisawa

We investigate a spinless Fermi gas trapped in a honeycomb optical lattice with attractive nearest-neighbor interactions. At zero temperature, mean-field theory predicts three quantum phase transitions, two being topological. At low…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Dario Poletti , Christian Miniatura , Benoit Gremaud

Superfluid 3He-B belongs to the important special class of time-reversal invariant topological superfluids. It has Majorana fermions as edge states on the surface of bulk 3He-B. On the rough wall these fermion zero modes have finite density…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-04 G. E. Volovik

Many quantum condensed-matter systems, and probably the quantum vacuum of our Universe, are strongly correlated and strongly interacting fermionic systems, which cannot be treated perturbatively. However, physics which emerges in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 G. E. Volovik

Recently it has been shown that multicomponent spin-orbit-coupled fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices can be viewed as spinless fermions moving in two-dimensional synthetic lattices with synthetic magnetic flux. The quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-03 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan , Zhong Wang

We systematically generalize the exotic $^3$He-B phase, which not only exhibits unconventional symmetry but is also isotropic and topologically non-trivial, to arbitrary partial-wave channels with multi-component fermions. The concrete…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-17 Wang Yang , Yi Li , Congjun Wu

We discuss the momentum-space topology of 3+1 and 2+1 strongly correlated fermionic systems. For the 3+1 systems the important universality class is determined by the topologically stable Fermi points in momentum space. In the extreme limit…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 G. E. Volovik

In this article, we give a comprehensive review of recent progress in research on symmetry-protected topological superfluids and topological crystalline superconductors, and their physical consequences such as helical and chiral Majorana…

Quantum vacua are characterized by the topological structure of their fermion zero modes. The vacua are distributed into universality classes protected by topology in momentum space. The vacua whose manifold of fermion zero modes has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

The energy levels of the fermions bound to the vortex are considered for vortices in the superfluid/superconducting systems which contain the symmetry protected plane of zeroes in the gap function in bulk. The Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 G. E. Volovik

This contribution describes the mathematical theory of topological indices in solid state systems composed of non-interacting Fermions. In particular, this covers the spectral localizer and the bulk-boundary correspondence.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Hermann Schulz-Baldes
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