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We derive from a microscopic model the effective theory of nematic order in a system with a spontaneous quantum anomalous Hall effect in two dimensions. Starting with a model of two-component fermions (a spinor field) with a quadratic band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-16 Yizhi You , Eduardo Fradkin

We present a theory of three dimensional fractionalized topological insulators in the form of U(1) spin liquids with gapped fermionic spinons in the bulk and topologically protected gapless spinon surface states. Starting from a spin-1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-27 Subhro Bhattacharjee , Yong Baek Kim , Sung-Sik Lee , Dung-Hai Lee

Topological insulators are characterized by the presence of gapless surface modes protected by time-reversal symmetry. In three space dimensions the magnetoelectric response is described in terms of a bulk theta term for the electromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Brian Swingle , Maissam Barkeshli , John McGreevy , T. Senthil

We propose several topological order parameters expressed in terms of Green's function at zero frequency for topological superconductors, which generalizes the previous work for interacting insulators. The coefficient in topological field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-16 Zhong Wang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We set up the effective field theories which describe the SO(5)-invariant picture of the high-Tc cuprates in various regimes. We use these to get quantitative conclusions concerning the size of SO(5)-breaking effects. We consider two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 C. P. Burgess , C. A. Lutken

We investigate theoretically properties of two-dimensional topological insulator constrictions both in the integer and fractional regimes. In the presence of a perpedicular magnetic field, the constriction functions as a spin filter with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We introduce a lattice field theory that describes the transition between a superfluid (SF) and a bosonic topological Mott Insulator (tMI) -- a $U(1)$ symmetry protected topological phase labeled by an integer level $k$ and possessing an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 Michael A. DeMarco , Ethan Lake , Xiao-Gang Wen

The discovery of topological insulators in non-interacting electron systems has motivated the community to search such topological states of matter in correlated electrons both theoretically and experimentally. In this paper we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Minh-Tien Tran , Tetsuya Takimoto , Ki-Seok Kim

We introduce a density functional formalism to study the ground-state properties of strongly-correlated dipolar and ionic ultracold bosonic and fermionic gases, based on the self-consistent combination of the weak and the strong coupling…

We derive an effective field theory for a noncollinear altermagnet and magnons on top of the noncollinear ground state from an altermagnetic Heisenberg model. We obtain the ground-state phase diagram, revealing a noncollinear phase and four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Seungho Lee , Se Kwon Kim

The methods of quantum field theory are widely used in condensed matter physics. In particular, the concept of an effective action was proven useful when studying low temperature and long distance behavior of condensed matter systems. Often…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-25 Alexander G. Abanov

Topological phases of matter are usually realized in deconfined phases of gauge theories. In this context, confined phases with strongly fluctuating gauge fields seem to be irrelevant to the physics of topological phases. For example, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-06 Peng Ye , Taylor L. Hughes , Joseph Maciejko , Eduardo Fradkin

The magnetic field opens a gap in the edge state spectrum of two-dimensional topological insulators thereby destroying protection of these states against backscattering. To relate properties of this gap to parameters of the system and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 O. E. Raichev

Axion electrodynamics, first proposed in the context of particle physics, manifests itself in condensed matter physics in the topological field theory description of 3d topological insulators and gives rise to magnetoelectric effect, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Imam Makhfudz

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

After briefly recalling the quantum entanglement-based view of topological phases of matter in order to outline the general context, we give an overview of different approaches to the classification problem of topological insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Fractional topological insulators are electronic systems that carry fractionally charged excitations, conserve charge and are symmetric to reversal of time. In this review we introduce the basic essential concepts of the field, and then…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Ady Stern

Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

Topological Kondo insulators are a rare example of an interaction-enabled topological phase of matter in three-dimensional crystals - making them an intriguing but also hard case for theoretical studies. Here, we aim to advance their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Michael Klett , Seulgi Ok , David Riegler , Peter Wölfle , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert

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