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We investigate topological insulating states in both two and three dimensions with the harmonic potential and strong spin-orbit couplings breaking the inversion symmetry. Landau-level like quantizations appear with the full 2D and 3D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Yi Li , Xiangfa Zhou , Congjun Wu

We relate the collective dynamic internal geometric degrees of freedom to the gauge fluctuations in $\nu=1/m$(m odd) fractional quantum Hall effects. In this way, in the lowest Landau level, a highly nontrivial quantum geometry in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 Xi Luo , Yong-Shi Wu , Yue Yu

We apply ideas from $C^*$-algebra to the study of disordered topological insulators. We extract certain almost commuting matrices from the free Fermi Hamiltonian, describing band projected coordinate matrices. By considering topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 M. B. Hastings , T. A. Loring

Noncommutative geometry governs the physics of quantum Hall (QH) effects. We introduce the Weyl ordering of the second quantized density operator to explore the dynamics of electrons in the lowest Landau level. We analyze QH systems made of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. F. Ezawa , G. Tsitsishvili , K. Hasebe

Despite sharing a common lattice structure, monolayer M$_2$X$_2$ compounds realize quantum anomalous Hall phases with distinct Chern numbers, a striking phenomenon that has not been fully exploared. Combining first-principles calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Zujian Dai , Xudong Zhu , Lixin He

We show that many invariant subspaces M for d-shifts (S_1,...,S_d) of finite rank have the property that the projection P onto M almost commutes with the S_k in the sense that the commutators PS_k - S_kP belong to the Schatten-von Neumann…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Arveson

We study translationally-invariant insulators with inversion symmetry that fall outside the established classification of topological insulators. These insulators are not required to have gapless boundary modes in the energy spectrum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Taylor L. Hughes , Emil Prodan , B. Andrei Bernevig

In the framework of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism, we investigate the transport properties in the surface of a 3-dimensional topological insulator-based hybrid structure, where the ferromagnetic and superconducting orders are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. Khezerlou , H. Goudarzi

Motivated by the group entropy theory, in this work we generalize the algebra of real numbers (that we called G-algebra), from which we develop an associated G-differential calculus. Thus, the algebraic structures corresponding to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Ignacio S. Gomez , Ernesto P. Borges

The effect of surface disorder on electronic systems is particularly interesting for topological phases with surface and edge states. Using exact diagonalization, it has been demonstrated that the surface states of a 3D topological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-08-12 Kun Woo Kim , Roger S. K. Mong , Marcel Franz , Gil Refael

Ultra-thin 3D topological insulators provide a stage to study the surface physics of such materials by minimizing the bulk contribution. Further, the experimentally verified snowflake like structure of the Fermi surface leads to a hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Anirudha Menon , Debashree Chowdhury , Banasri Basu

Free planar electrons in a uniform magnetic field are shown to possess the symmetry of area-preserving diffeomorphisms ($W$-infinity algebra). Intuitively, this is a consequence of gauge invariance, which forces dynamics to depend only on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Cappelli , C. A. Trugenberger , G. R. Zemba

This paper discusses a connection between two important classes of materials, namely quasicrystals and topological insulators as exemplified by the Quantum Hall problem. It has been remarked that the quasicrystal ``inherits" topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Anuradha Jagannathan

We study non-interacting electrons in disordered one-dimensional materials which exhibit a spectral gap, in each of the ten Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes. We define an appropriate topology on the space of Hamiltonians so that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro

The construction of superintegrable systems based on Lie algebras and their universal enveloping algebras has been widely studied over the past decades. However, most constructions rely on explicit differential operator realisations and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Ian Marquette , Junze Zhang , Yao-Zhong Zhang

The chiral hinge modes are the key feature of a second order topological insulator in three dimensions. Here we propose a quadrupole index in combination of a slab Chern number in the bulk to characterize the flowing pattern of chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

Using THz spectroscopy in external magnetic fields we investigate the low-temperature charge dynamics of strained HgTe, a three dimensional topological insulator. From the Faraday rotation angle and ellipticity a complete characterization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-27 A. M. Shuvaev , G. V. Astakhov , G. Tkachov , C. Brüne , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , A. Pimenov

Homotopical algebraic $D$-geometry combines aspects of homotopical algebraic geometry of Toen and Vezzosi and $D$-geometry of Beilinson and Drinfeld. It was introduced by the paper's last two authors and di Brino as a suitable framework for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Alisa Govzmann , Damjan Pištalo , Norbert Poncin

We propose a physical model based on disordered (a hole punched inside a material) monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) to demonstrate a large-gap quantum valley Hall insulator. We find an emergence of bound states lying inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Fanyao Qu , L. Villegas-Lelovsky , G. S. Diniz

Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) are a perfectly tuned quantum-mechanical machinery in which counter-propagating and oppositely spin-polarized conduction channels balance each other on the surface of the material. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 A. I. Figueroa , T. Hesjedal , N. -J. Steinke