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The study of topological band insulators has revealed fascinating phases characterized by band topology indices and anomalous boundary modes protected by global symmetries. In strongly correlated systems, where the traditional notion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Xu , Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang

Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are novel states of quantum matter that feature spin-momentum locked helical Dirac fermions on their surfaces and hold promise to open new vistas in spintronics, quantum computing and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 Su-Yang Xu , L. A. Wray , Y. Xia , R. Shankar , A. Petersen , A. Fedorov , H. Lin , A. Bansil , Y. S. Hor , D. Grauer , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Inducing a magnetic gap at the Dirac point of the topological surface state (TSS) in a 3D topological insulator (TI) is a route to dissipationless charge and spin currents. Ideally, magnetic order is present only at the surface and not in…

Magnetotransport measurements are a popular way of characterizing the electronic structure of topological materials and often the resulting datasets cannot be described by the well-known Drude model due to large, non-parabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 J. C. de Boer , D. P. Leusink , A. Brinkman

Motivated by recently reported magnetic-field induced topological phases in ultracold atoms and correlated Moir\'e materials, we investigate topological phase transitions in a minimal model consisting of interacting spinless fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Axel Fünfhaus , Marius Möller , Thilo Kopp , Roser Valentí

While ferromagnets have been known and exploited for millennia, antiferromagnets (AFMs) were only discovered in the 1930s. The elusive nature indicates AFMs' unique properties: At large scale, due to the absence of global magnetization,…

We study the 3D topological insulators in the continuum by coupling spin-1/2 fermions to the Aharonov-Casher SU(2) gauge field. They exhibit flat Landau levels in which orbital angular momentum and spin are coupled with a fixed helicity.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-23 Yi Li , Congjun Wu

The discovery of fascinating ways to control and manipulate antiferromagnetic materials have garnered considerable attention as an attractive platform to explore novel spintronic phenomena and functionalities. Layered antiferromagnets…

We construct a lattice model for a cubic Kondo insulator consisting of one spin-degenerate $d$ and $f$ orbital at each lattice site. The odd-parity hybridization between the two orbitals permits us to obtain various trivial and topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-13 Markus Legner , Andreas Rüegg , Manfred Sigrist

We investigate the emergence of anti-ferromagnetic ordering and its effect on the helical edge states in a quantum spin Hall insulator, in the presence of strong Coulomb interaction. Using dynamical mean-field theory, we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 A. Amaricci , A. Valli , G. Sangiovanni , B. Trauzettel , M. Capone

The topological Anderson and Mott insulators are two phases that have so far been separately and widely explored beyond topological band insulators. Here we combine the two seemingly different topological phases into a system of spin-1/2…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-10 Guo-Qing Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Strong disorder drives conventional Hermitian systems into Anderson insulating states, suppressing all topological phases. Here, we unveil symmetry-protected, anomalous topological phases in the strong disorder limit of a non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mina Ren , Xi Shi , Haitao Jiang , Feng Liu , Hong Chen , Yong Sun

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

The discovery of two-dimensional gapless Dirac fermions in graphene and topological insulators (TI) has sparked extensive ongoing research toward applications of their unique electronic properties. The gapless surface states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Minjin Kim , Jihwan Kim , Yasen Hou , Dong Yu , Yong-Joo Doh , Bongsoo Kim , Kun Woo Kim , Junho Suh

We propose a class of models for a magnonic analog of topological insulators in three dimensions. The models have pseudo-time-reversal symmetry which ensures the existence of bosonic Kramers pairs. We define a set of $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Hiroki Kondo , Yutaka Akagi , Hosho Katsura

A relativistic topological insulator model in three spatial dimensions which is a non trivial extension of the non-abelian Landau problem is proposed. The model is exactly soluble and energy levels have both a discrete and a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-17 J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

Motivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of two time-reversal-conjugated $\nu=2/3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

We report direct imaging of standing waves of the nontrivial surface states of topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$ by using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The interference fringes are caused by the scattering of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tong Zhang , Peng Cheng , Xi Chen , Jin-Feng Jia , Xucun Ma , Ke He , Lili Wang , Haijun Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Xincheng Xie , Qi-Kun Xue

We study a two-dimensional fermionic square lattice, which supports the existence of two-dimensional Weyl semimetal, quantum anomalous Hall effect, and $2\pi$-flux topological semimetal in different parameter ranges. We show that the band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-27 Jing-Min Hou

We study the effective interactions between Dirac fermions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator due to the proximity coupling to the magnetic fluctuations in a ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic insulator. Our results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Henning G. Hugdal , Stefan Rex , Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbø