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Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

This course-based primer provides newcomers to the field with a concise introduction to some of the core topics in the emerging field of topological band insulators in one and two dimensions. The aim is to provide a basic understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 János K. Asbóth , László Oroszlány , András Pályi

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

Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new quantum state of matter which have gapless surface states inside the bulk energy gap. Starting with the discovery of two dimensional TIs, the HgTe-based quantum wells, many new topological materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-03 Lukas Müchler , Frederick Casper , Binghai Yan , Stanislav Chadov , Claudia Felser

Topological insulators are a new class of insulators in which a bulk gap for electronic excitations is generated by strong spin orbit coupling. These novel materials are distinguished from ordinary insulators by the presence of gapless…

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter with surface states protected by the time-reversal symmetry. In this work, we perform first-principle electronic structure calculations for $Sb_2Te_3$, $Sb_2Se_3$, $Bi_2Te_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Haijun Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The class of topological insulator materials is one of the frontier topics of condensed matter physics. The great success of this field is due to the conceptual breakthroughs in theories for topological electronic states and is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter with metallic edge/surface states. In this paper, we pointed out that there exists a new type of particle-hole symmetry-protected topological insulator - topological hierarchy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-23 Jing He , Chun-Li Zang , Ying Liang , Su-Peng Kou

Topological insulators exhibit boundary states protected by bulk band topology, a principle first established in quantum systems and later extended to classical waves, including phononics. Conventionally, an $n$-dimensional bulk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Joel R. Pyfrom , Kai Sun , Jihong A. Ma

One of the hallmarks of topological insulators is the correspondence between the value of its bulk topological invariant and the number of topologically protected edge modes observed in a finite-sized sample. This bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Jérôme Cayssol , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We define a class of insulators with gapless surface states protected from localization due to the statistical properties of a disordered ensemble, namely due to the ensemble's invariance under a certain symmetry. We show that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 I. C. Fulga , B. van Heck , J. M. Edge , A. R. Akhmerov

Discoveries of topological states and topological materials reshape our understanding of physics and materials over the last 15 years. First-principles calculations have been playing a significant role in bridging the theory of topology and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-25 Jiewen Xiao , Binghai Yan

Recently, higher-order topological insulators have been attracting extensive interest. Unlike the conventional topological insulators that demand bulk gap closings at transition points, the higher-order band topology can be changed without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Juan Du , Tianzi Li , Xiying Fan , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

The theory of topological insulators and superconductors has mostly focused on non-interacting and gapped systems. This review article discusses topological phases that are either gapless or interacting. We discuss recent progress in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-04 Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave functions. This review presents a pedagogical account on…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Yoichi Ando

Topological insulators are characterized by insulating bulk and conducting surface, the latter is a necessity consequence of the nontrivial topology of the wavefunctions forming the valence band. This chapter gives a historical overview of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yoichi Ando

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar
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