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Topological insulators are noninteracting, gapped fermionic systems which have gapless boundary excitations. They are characterized by topological invariants, which can be written in many different ways, including in terms of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Andrew M. Essin , Victor Gurarie

Partition functions of some two-dimensional statistical models can be represented by means of Grassmann integrals over loops living on two-dimensional torus. It is shown that those Grassmann integrals are topological invariants, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Klimcik

We study topological insulators characterized by the integer topological invariant Z, in even and odd spacial dimensions. These are well understood in case when there are no interactions. We extend the earlier work on this subject to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 V. Gurarie

The definition of topological invariants $\tilde{\cal N}_4, \tilde{\cal N}_5$ suggested in \cite{VZ2012} is extended to the case, when there are zeros and poles of the Green function in momentum space. It is shown how to extend the index…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-10-09 M. A. Zubkov

This paper discusses the topological and transport properties of binary heterostructures of different topological materials. The creation of multilayer devices is an alternative to building synthetic topological materials. By adjusting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 R. Pineda , W. Herrera

Topological invariants for the 4D gapped system are discussed with application to the quantum vacua of relativistic quantum fields. Expression $\tilde{\cal N}_3$ for the 4D systems with mass gap defined in \cite{Volovik2010} is considered.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 M. A. Zubkov , G. E. Volovik

For interacting Z_2 topological insulators with inversion symmetry, we propose a simple topological invariant expressed in terms of the parity eigenvalues of the interacting Green's function at time-reversal invariant momenta. We derive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-19 Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Here we shall consider the topology and dynamics associated to a wide class of matchbox manifolds, including a large selection of tiling spaces and all minimal matchbox manifolds of dimension one. For such spaces we introduce topological…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Alex Clark , John Hunton

We study the topology of two-dimensional open systems in terms of the Green's function. The Ishikawa-Matsuyama formula for the integer topological invariant is applied in open systems, which indicates the number difference of gapless edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 Jun-Hui Zheng , Walter Hofstetter

We consider a thin film of a topological insulator (TI) sandwiched between two ferromagnetic (FM) layers. The system is additionally under an external gate voltage. The surface electron states of TI are magnetized due to the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Piotr Pigoń , Anna Dyrdał

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Alexandr Prishlyak

Topological materials are characterized by integer invariants that underpin their robust quantized electronic features, as famously exemplified by the Chern number in the integer quantum Hall effect. Yet, in most candidate systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yuval Abulafia , Eric Akkermans

The quantum Hall conductivity in the presence of constant magnetic field may be represented as the topological TKNN invariant. Recently the generalization of this expression has been proposed for the non - uniform magnetic field. \rev{The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 C. X. Zhang , M. A. Zubkov

The prediction of non-trivial topological phases in Bloch insulators in three dimensions has recently been experimentally verified. Here, I provide a picture for obtaining the $Z_{2}$ invariants for a three dimensional topological insulator…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-21 Rahul Roy

We consider closed and orientable immersed hypersurfaces of translational manifolds. Given a vector field on such a hypersurface, we define a perturbation of its Gauss map, which allows us to obtain topological invariants for the immersion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Ícaro Gonçalves , Eduardo Longa

We explicitly calculate the Green functions describing quantum changes of topology in Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Universes whose spacelike sections are compact but endowed with distinct topologies. The calculations are performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-03 Jerome Martin , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Ivano Damiao Soares

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part we discus the main structures…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Alexandr Prishlyak

This paper is a survey of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued invariant of topological insulators used in condensed matter physics. The $\mathbb{Z}$-valued topological invariant, which was originally called the TKNN invariant in physics, has now been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

Conformal properties of the topological gravitational terms in $D=2$, $D=4$ and $D=6$ are discussed. It is shown that in the last two cases the integrands of these terms, when being settled into the dimension $D-1$ and multiplied by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Fabricio M. Ferreira , Ilya L. Shapiro , Poliane M. Teixeira

The topological order of a (2+1)D topological phase of matter is characterized by its chiral central charge and a unitary modular tensor category that describes the universal fusion and braiding properties of its anyonic quasiparticles. I…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-04 Parsa Bonderson