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It is shown that the rich algebraic structure of the standard $d$-dimensional Coulomb problem can be extended to its Dunkl counterpart. Replacing standard derivatives by Dunkl ones in the so($d+1$,2) dynamical algebra generators of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Christiane Quesne

We study the transport properties of topological insulators, encoding them in a generating functional of gauge and gravitational sources. Much of our focus is on the simple example of a free massive Dirac fermion, the so-called Chern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-21 Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar

This paper explores the possibility of using Maxwell algebra and its generalizations called resonant algebras for the unified description of topological insulators. We offer the natural action construction, which includes the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-09 Remigiusz Durka , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman

Recent advances in topological artificial systems open the door to realizing topological states in dimensions higher than the usual three-dimensional space. Here, we present a "tensor product" theory, which offers a method to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Kai Wang , Jia-Xiao Dai , L. B. Shao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

In this work we consider whether nonsymmorphic symmetries such as a glide plane can protect the existence of topological crystalline insulators and superconductors in three dimensions. In analogy to time-reversal symmetric insulators, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Daniel Varjas , Fernando de Juan , Yuan-Ming Lu

We provide a characterization of tunneling between coupled topological insulators in 2D and 3D under the influence of a ferromagnetic layer. We explore conditions for such systems to exhibit integer quantum Hall physics and localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

We study bulk-boundary correspondences and related surface phenomena stabilized by the second Chern number in three-dimensional insulators driven in adiabatic cycles. Magnetic fields and disorder effects are incorporated in our analysis…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-07 Bryan Leung , Emil Prodan

We investigate topological states of two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattices with multi-orbitals. Tight-binding model calculations of a 2D triangular lattice based on $\emph{p}_{x}$ and \emph{p}_{y} orbitals exhibit very interesting doubly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Jiayong Zhang , Bao Zhao , Yang Xue , Tong Zhou , Zhongqin Yang

We construct affinization of the algebra $gl_{\lambda}$ of ``complex size'' matrices, that contains the algebras $\hat{gl_n}$ for integral values of the parameter. The Drinfeld--Sokolov Hamiltonian reduction of the algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Boris Khesin , Feodor Malikov

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

We study a generic model of a Chern insulator supplemented by a Hubbard interaction in arbitrary even dimension $D$ and demonstrate that the model remains well-defined and nontrivial in the $D \to \infty$ limit. Dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 David Krüger , Michael Potthoff

Topological insulators and superconductors in different spatial dimensions and with different discrete symmetries have been fully classified recently, revealing a periodic structure for the pattern of possible types of topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Shinsei Ryu , Tadashi Takayanagi

We classify topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of additional symmetries such as reflection or mirror symmetries. For each member of the 10 Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes, we have a Clifford algebra defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki

Second-order topological insulators are crystalline insulators with a gapped bulk and gapped crystalline boundaries, but topologically protected gapless states at the intersection of two boundaries. Without further spatial symmetries, five…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Josias Langbehn , Yang Peng , Luka Trifunovic , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer

Topological insulators are exotic material that possess conducting surface states protected by the topology of the system. They can be classified in terms of their properties under discrete symmetries and are characterized by topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-29 M. Mochol-Grzelak , A. Dauphin , A. Celi , M. Lewenstein

Topologically protected surface modes of classical waves hold the promise to enable a variety of applications ranging from robust transport of energy to reliable information processing networks. The integer quantum Hall effect has delivered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Valerio Peri , Feng Li , Sebastian D. Huber , Zhengyou Liu

The surface of a 3+1d topological insulator hosts an odd number of gapless Dirac fermions when charge conjugation and time-reversal symmetries are preserved. Viewed as a purely 2+1d system, this surface theory would necessarily explicitly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-29 Michael Mulligan , F. J. Burnell

We discuss the role of direct Coulomb interaction on the bulk insulator of the integer quantized Hall effect that bridges the topological insulators and the conductance quantization. We investigate the magneto-transport properties of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 A. Yıldız , D. Eksi , A. Siddiki

This review deals with strongly disordered topological insulators and covers some recent applications of a well established analytic theory based on the methods of Non-Commutative Geometry (NCG) and developed for the Integer Quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Emil Prodan