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Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are quantum materials with a spin-orbit induced bulk insulating gap that exhibit quantum-Hall-like phenomena in the absence of applied magnetic fields. The proposed applications of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-20 Y. Xia , D. Qian , D. Hsieh , R. Shankar , H. Lin , A. Bansil , A. V. Fedorov , D. Grauer , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

A topological insulator is a quantum material which possesses conducting surfaces and an insulating bulk. Despite extensive researches on the properties of Dirac surface states, the characteristics of bulk states have remained largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Cheng-Long Zhang , Yilin Zhao , Yiyuan Chen , Ziquan Lin , Sen Shao , Zhen-Hao Gong , Junfeng Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Guoqing Chang , Shuang Jia

Higher-dimensional topological phases play a key role in understanding the lower-dimensional topological phases and the related topological responses through a dimensional reduction procedure. In this work, we present a Dirac-type model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhen Zheng , Giandomenico Palumbo , Z. D. Wang

We theoretically demonstrate hybrid-order topology in a two-dimensional nonsymmorphic antiferromagnet. Utilizing a generic antiferromagnetic Dirac model with a symmetry-allowed, momentum-dependent spin-density-wave (SDW) mass, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Wei Xiong , Zi-Ming Wang , Xin-Mei Wei , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

We investigate the spin transport properties of a topological magnon insulator, a magnetic insulator characterized by topologically nontrivial bulk magnon bands and protected magnon edge modes located in the bulk band gaps. Employing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andreas Rückriegel , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

A topological insulator is characterized by a dichotomy between the interior and the edge of a finite system: While the bulk has a non-zero energy gap, the edges are forced to sustain excitations traversing these gaps. Originally proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-07 Roman Süsstrunk , Sebastian D. Huber

We study the nature of the disorder-induced quantized conductance, i.e., the phenomena of topological Anderson insulator (TAI) induced in HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum well. The disorder effect in several different systems where anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yanxia Xing , Lei Zhang , Jian Wang

The interest in the properties of edge states in Chern insulators and in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator has increased rapidly in recent years. We present calculations on how to influence the transport properties of chiral and helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 M. Malki , G. S. Uhrig

Unlike the edge state of a topological insulator where its energy level lives in the bulk energy gap, the edge state of a topological semimetal hides in the bulk spectrum and is difficult to be identified by the energy. We investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

We investigate the spin conductivity of topological insulators taking into account both the surface and quasi-two-dimensional bulk states. We apply a low-energy expansion of the Hamiltonian up to the third order in momentum and take into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 R. S. Akzyanov , A. L. Rakhmanov

Topological insulators represent a new state of matter where the topological nature of the bulk bands dictates the existence of a surface state with unique properties. These materials are predicted to host exotic states such as Majorana…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-29 Yoshinori Okada , Wenwen Zhou , Chetan. Dhital , D. Walkup , Ying Ran , Z. Wang , Stephen D. Wilson , V. Madhavan

We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, the concept of non-linear second-order topological insulators, a class of bulk insulators with quantized Wannier centers and a bulk polarization directly controlled by the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

The archetypical 3D topological insulators Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 commonly exhibit high bulk conductivities, hindering the characterization of the surface state charge transport. The optimally doped topological insulators Bi2Te2Se and…

Topological states are useful because they are robust against disorder and imperfection. In this study, we consider the effect of disorder and the breaking of parity symmetry on a topological network system in which the edge states are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-30 Tianshu Jiang , C. T. Chan

We study the influence of the antiferromagnetic order on the surface states of topological insulators. We derive an effective Hamiltonian for these states, taking into account the spatial structure of the antiferromagnetic order. We obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 R. S. Akzyanov , A. L. Rakhmanov

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI) are novel quantum materials with insulating bulk and topologically protected metallic surfaces with Dirac-like band structure. The spin-helical Dirac surface states are expected to host…

A topological boundary can be formed at the interface between a trivial and a topological insulator. The difference in the topological index across the junction leads to robust gapless surface states. Optical studies of these states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Diaz-Fernandez , N. del Valle , E. Diaz , F. Dominguez-Adame

Topology in condensed matter physics manifests itself in the emergence of edge or surface states protected by underlying symmetries. We review two-dimensional topological insulators whose one-dimensional edge states are characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Giacomo Dolcetto , Maura Sassetti , Thomas L. Schmidt

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

Three-dimensional topological insulators have protected Dirac-cone surface states. In this paper we propose magnetic field induced topological insulator thin film ordered states in which coherence is established spontaneously between top…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Dagim Tilahun , Byounghak Lee , E. M. Hankiewicz , A. H. MacDonald