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The non-trivial topological features in the energy band of non-Hermitian systems provide promising pathways to achieve robust physical behaviors in classical or quantum open systems. A key topological feature, unique to non-Hermitian…

It is widely accepted that topological quantities are useful to describe quantum liquids in low dimensions. The (spin) Hall conductances are typical examples. They are expressed by the Chern numbers, which are topological invariants given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Hatsugai , T. Fukui , H. Suzuki

We investigate the topological classification of the subgap bands induced in a two-dimensional superconductor by a densely packed chain of magnetic moments with ferromagnetic or spiral alignments. The wave functions for these bands are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 C. J. F. Carroll , B. Braunecker

We report the theoretical discovery of a large class of 2D tight-binding models containing nearly-flat bands with nonzero Chern numbers. In contrast with previous studies, where nonlocal hoppings are usually required, the Hamiltonians of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Kai Sun , Zheng-Cheng Gu , Hosho Katsura , S. Das Sarma

We construct Hamiltonians with only 1- and 2-body interactions that exhibit an exact non-Abelian gauge symmetry (specifically, combinatiorial gauge symmetry). Our spin Hamiltonian realizes the quantum double associated to the group of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-23 Dmitry Green , Claudio Chamon

To realize band structures with non-trivial topological properties in an optical lattice is an exciting topic in current studies on ultra cold atoms. Here we point out that this lofty goal can be achieved by using a simple scheme of shaking…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 Shao-Liang Zhang , Qi Zhou

Skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures, characterized by a topological winding number N , that occur spontaneously in some magnetic materials. Recent experiments have demonstrated the capability to grow graphene on top Fe/Ir, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

The effect of an atomically sharp impenetrable interface on the spin splitting of the spectrum of two-dimensional electrons in heterostructures based on (001) III-V compounds has been analyzed. To this end, the single band Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Zh. A. Devizorova , V. A. Volkov

Equivalence classes of gapped Hamiltonians compatible with given symmetry constraints, such as those underlying topological insulators, can be defined in many ways. For the non-chiral classes modelled by vector bundles over Brillouin tori,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Guo Chuan Thiang

We investigate the electronic properties of MXenes by three bands tight-binding model of \d_{z^2} , \d_{xy} , and \d_{x^2-y^2} orbitals. The three corresponding bands touch each other at high symmetry K point in the case of absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-11 Phusit Nualpijit , Bumned Soodchomshom

AKLT state (or Haldane phase) in a spin-1 chain represents a large class of gapped topological paramagnets, which hosts symmetry-protected gapless excitations on the boundary. In this work we show how to realize this type of featureless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-02 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

We use the Hamiltonian theory developed by Shankar and Murthy to study a quantum Hall system in a tilted magnetic field. With a finite width of the system in the $z$ direction, the parallel component of the magnetic field introduces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Kang Yang , Mark Oliver Goerbig , Benoît Douçot

We generalize the construction of time-reversal symmetry-breaking triple-component semimetals, transforming under the pseudospin-1 representation, to arbitrary (anti-)monopole charge $2 n$, with $n=1,2,3$ in the crystalline environment. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Snehasish Nandy , Sourav Manna , Dumitru Calugaru , Bitan Roy

Building upon Dyson's fundamental 1962 article known in random-matrix theory as 'the threefold way', we classify disordered fermion systems with quadratic Hamiltonians by their unitary and antiunitary symmetries. Important examples are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Heinzner , A. Huckleberry , M. R. Zirnbauer

We propose theoretically a reconfigurable two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal sonic crystal with higher-order topology protected by the six-fold, $C_6$, rotation symmetry. The acoustic band gap and band topology can be controlled by rotating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Zhi-Kang Lin , Shi-Qiao Wu , Hai-Xiao Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

Topological insulators in three dimensions are studied as a problem of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The spin-orbit coupling is induced as a consequence of the supersymmetrization procedure and we show that it is equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

Skyrmions are spatially localized magnetic swirls which carry a nonzero integer topological charge. We study crystals of skyrmions in a two-dimensional ferromagnet model with chiral interactions induced by the presence of broken inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Sopheak Sorn , Stefan Divic , Arun Paramekanti

Quantization of topological charges determines the various topological spin textures that are expected to play a key role in future spintronic devices. While the magnetic skyrmion with a unit topological charge Q has been extensively…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-29 Jin Tang , Yaodong Wu , Weiwei Wang , Lingyao Kong , Boyao Lv , Wensen Wei , Jiadong Zang , Mingliang Tian , Haifeng Du

We consider the effect of spin-orbit coupling on a two-dimensional Kondo Lattice model, in which conduction electrons are antiferromagnetically coupled to a Yao-Lee spin liquid. When a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Zekun Zhuang , Piers Coleman

The hierarchy of Integrable Spin Chain Hamiltonians, which are trigonometric analogs of the Haldane Shastry Model and of the associated higher conserved charges, is derived by a reduction from the trigonometric Dynamical Models of…

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