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The anomalous quantum Hall conductivity in the 2+1D topological insulators in the absence of interactions may be expressed as the topological invariant composed of the two - point Green function. For the noninteracting system this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 C. X. Zhang , M. A. Zubkov

The surface of a topological insulator is a closed two dimensional manifold. The surface states are described by the Dirac Hamiltonian in curved two dimensional spaces. For a slab-like sample with a magnetic field perpendicular to its top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Dung-Hai Lee

Soliton molecules, bound states of two solitons, can be important for the informatics using solitons and the quest for exotic particles in a wide range of physical systems from unconventional superconductors to nuclear matter and Higgs…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-11 Taehwan Im , Sun Kyu Song , Jae Whan Park , Han Woong Yeom

Topological insulators in odd dimensions are characterized by topological numbers. We prove the well-known relation between the topological number given by the Chern character of the Berry curvature and the Chern-Simons level of the low…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-03-20 Hidenori Fukaya , Tetsuya Onogi , Satoshi Yamaguchi , Xi Wu

Riemannian Geometry, Topology and Dynamics permit to introduce partially defined holomorphic functions on the variety of representations of the fundamental group of a manifold. The functions we consider are the complex valued Ray-Singer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Burghelea , Stefan Haller

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but feature conducting states on their surfaces. Standard methods for probing their topological properties largely involve probing the surface, even though topological invariants are defined…

Linear singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems with characteristic layers are considered in three dimensions. We demonstrate the sharpness of our recently obtained upper bounds for the associated Green's function and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-28 Sebastian Franz , Natalia Kopteva

For two-dimensional topological insulators, the integer and intrinsic (without external magnetic field) quantum Hall effect is described by the gauge anomalous (2+1)-dimensional [2+1d] Chern-Simons (CS) response for the background gauge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Nissinen , G. E. Volovik

We give a self-contained and enriched review about topology properties in the rapidly growing field of topological states of matter (TSM). This review is mainly focus on the beautiful interplay of topology mathematics and condensed matter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Chunbo Zhao

A direct link between the topological complexity of magnetic media and their dynamics is established through the construction of unambiguous conservation laws for the linear and angular momenta as moments of a topological vorticity. As a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Papanicolaou

Topology in photonics comes in two distinct flavors: global and local. Global topology considers invariants that are obtained by integrating over the energy band, whereas local topology considers defects, typically vortices, in the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Kristian Arjas , Grazia Salerno , Päivi Törmä

The detection of topological phases of matter becomes a central issue in recent years. Conventionally, the realization of a specific topological phase in condensed matter physics relies on probing the underlying surface band dispersion or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tao Xin , Yishan Li , Yu-ang Fan , Xuanran Zhu , Yingjie Zhang , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Qihang Liu , Dawei Lu

Topological defects are singularities within a field that cannot be removed by continuous transformations. The definition of these irregularities requires an ordered reference configuration, calling into question whether they exist in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-06 Vinay Vaibhav , Arabinda Bera , Amelia C. Y. Liu , Matteo Baggioli , Peter Keim , Alessio Zaccone

The fermion propagator and the 4-fermion Green function in the massless QED2 are explicitly found with topological effects taken into account. The corrections due to instanton sectors k=+1,-1, contributing to the propagator, are shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomasz Radozycki

Topological insulators are new phases of matter whose properties are derived from a number of qualitative yet robust topological invariants rather than specific geometric features or constitutive parameters. Here, Kagome lattices are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Hui Chen , Hussein Nassar , Guoliang Huang

The most general conformally invariant bending energy of a closed four-dimensional surface, polynomial in the extrinsic curvature and its derivatives, is constructed. This invariance manifests itself as a set of constraints on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jemal Guven

The topology of orientable (2 + 1)d spacetimes can be captured by certain lumps of non-trivial topology called topological geons. They are the topological analogues of conventional solitons. We give a description of topological geons where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. P. Balachandran , E. Batista , I. P. Costa e Silva , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

Chern-Simons (CS) invariant is a fundamental topological invariant describing the topological invariance of 3D space based on the Chern-Simons field theory. To date, direct measurement of the CS invariant in a physical system remains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-09 Chang-Rui Yi , Jinlong Yu , Huan Yuan , Xin Chen , Jia-Yu Guo , Jinyi Zhang , Shuai Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

Topological insulators are novel macroscopic quantum-mechanical phase of matter, which hold promise for realizing some of the most exotic particles in physics as well as application towards spintronics and quantum computation. In all the…

We show that the topological charge of the n-soliton solution of the sine-Gordon equation n is related to the genus g > 1 of a constant negative curvature compact surface described by this configuration. The relation is n=2(g-1), where n is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Luis J. Boya , Antonio J. Segui-Santonja