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We establish a connection between the electromagnetic Hall response and band topological invariants in hyperbolic Chern insulators by deriving a hyperbolic analog of the Thouless-Kohmoto-Nightingale-den Nijs (TKNN) formula. By generalizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Canon Sun , Anffany Chen , Tomáš Bzdušek , Joseph Maciejko

The realization of interacting topological states of matter such as fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in cold atom systems has recently come within experimental reach due to the engineering of optical lattices with synthetic gauge fields…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-03 Johannes Motruk , Ilyoun Na

We introduce a novel gauge-invariant, quantized interband index in two-dimensional (2D) multiband systems. It provides a bulk topological classification of a submanifold of parameter space (e.g., an electron valley in a Brillouin zone), and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Tharindu Fernando , Ting Cao

The identification of the topological invariant of a topological system is crucial in experiments. However, due to the inherent non-Hermitian features, such determination is notably challenging in non-Hermitian systems. Here, we propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Hongfang Liu , Ming Lu , Shengdu Chai , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

Topological states of matter exhibit many novel properties due to the presence of robust topological invariants such as the Chern index. These global characteristics pertain to the system as a whole and are not locally defined. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-07 M. D. Caio , G. Möller , N. R. Cooper , M. J. Bhaseen

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices form a clean quantum simulator platform which can be utilized to examine topological phenomena and test exotic topological materials. Here we propose an experimental scheme to measure the Chern numbers of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-11 Tomasz Szołdra , Krzysztof Sacha , Arkadiusz Kosior

The Chern number is often used to distinguish between different topological phases of matter in two-dimensional electron systems. A fast and efficient coupling-matrix method is designed to calculate the Chern number in finite crystalline…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-13 Y. F. Zhang , Y. Y. Yang , Yan Ju , L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , R. Shen , D. Y. Xing

We study the effect of diluting a two-dimensional ferromagnetic insulator hosting a topological phase in the clean limit. By considering the ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the honeycomb lattice with second nearest-neighbor…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-19 Miguel S. Oliveira , T. V. C. Antão , Eduardo V. Castro , Nuno Peres

The topology of electronic states in band insulators with mirror symmetry can be classified in two different ways. One is in terms of the mirror Chern number, an integer that counts the number of protected Dirac cones in the Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Tomáš Rauch , Thomas Olsen , David Vanderbilt , Ivo Souza

Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states, can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next-generation topological quantum devices. To date, integer Chern…

This review deals with strongly disordered topological insulators and covers some recent applications of a well established analytic theory based on the methods of Non-Commutative Geometry (NCG) and developed for the Integer Quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Emil Prodan

We derive the expression for the local Hall conductivity for systems that lack translation symmetry and use it to study the local fluctuations of the Hall signal around disordered patches in magnetic insulators. We find that the regime in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zachariah Addison , Nandini Trivedi

We introduce a second-quantized field theory for Chern insulators in which the Hamiltonian features a static vector potential that has the periodicity of the crystal's lattice and spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry in the system's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jason G. Kattan , J. E. Sipe

The system of spinless fermions on a hexagonal lattice is studied . We have considered tight-binding model with the hopping integrals between the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor lattice sites, that depend on the direction of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-27 Igor N. Karnaukhov

Topologically ordered phases are characterized by long-range quantum entanglement and fractional statistics rather than by symmetry breaking. First observed in a fractionally filled continuum Landau level, topological order has since been…

We propose characterization of the three-dimensional topological insulator by using the Chern number for the entanglement Hamiltonian (entanglement Chern number). Here we take the extensive spin partition of the system, that pulls out the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Hiromu Araki , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

If an extensive partition in two dimensions yields a gapful entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix, the Berry curvature based on the corresponding entanglement eigenfunction defines the Chern number. We propose such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Fukui , Y. Hatsugai

The identification, description, and classification of topological features is an engine of discovery and innovation in several fields of physics. This research encompasses a broad variety of systems, from the integer and fractional Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-04 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Can Yin

Multi-terminal topological devices are a new generation of electronic devices with quantized properties robust against imperfections. In magnetic topological insulators, dissipationless edge states give functional devices in zero magnetic…