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As first demonstrated by the characterization of the quantum Hall effect by the Chern number, topology provides a guiding principle to realize robust properties of condensed matter systems immune to the existence of disorder. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Kazuki Sone , Motohiko Ezawa , Yuto Ashida , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

In this paper, we formulate the real-space Chern number in a supercell framework. In this framework, the overlap matrix between two corners of the Brillouin zone (BZ) is derived from diagonalizing the real-space Hamiltonian with periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Kiminori Hattori , Shinji Nakata

We evaluate the real-space second Chern number of four-dimensional Chern insulators using the kernel polynomial method. Our calculations are performed on a four-dimensional system with $30^4$ sites, and the numerical results agree well with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou

We present a relationship between noncommutativity and higher order time derivative theories using a method perturbative. We introduce a generalization of the Chern-Simons Quantum Mechanics for higher order time derivatives. This model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Oscar Sánchez-Santos , José David Vergara

Chern insulators exhibit fascinating properties which originate from the topologically nontrivial state characterized by the Chern number. How these properties change if the system is quenched between topologically distinct phases has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Michael Schüler , Philipp Werner

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 pumping conductance of a disordered two-dimensional Chern insulator scales with increasing size and fixed disorder strength to sharp plateau transitions at well-defined energies between ordinary and quantum Hall insulators. When the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Jan Dahlhaus , Roni Ilan , Daniel Freed , Michael Freedman , Joel E. Moore

This paper is a survey of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued invariant of topological insulators used in condensed matter physics. The $\mathbb{Z}$-valued topological invariant, which was originally called the TKNN invariant in physics, has now been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

Lattice models forming bands with higher Chern number offer an intriguing possibility for new phases of matter with no analogue in continuum Landau levels. Here, we establish the existence of a number of new bulk insulating states at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-06 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Heng Fan , Andreas M. Laeuchli

Chern insulators are two-dimensional magnetic topological materials that conduct electricity along their edges via the one-dimensional chiral modes. The number of these modes is a topological invariant called the first Chern number $C$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Mihovil Bosnar , Alexandra Yu. Vyazovskaya , Evgeniy K. Petrov , Evgueni V. Chulkov , Mikhail M. Otrokov

Topology has appeared in different physical contexts. The most prominent application is topologically protected edge transport in condensed matter physics. The Chern number, the topological invariant of gapped Bloch Hamiltonians, is an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Thomas Fösel , Vittorio Peano , Florian Marquardt

The search for strong topological phases in generic aperiodic materials and meta-materials is now vigorously pursued by the condensed matter physics community. In this work, we first introduce the concept of patterned resonators as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Chris Bourne , Emil Prodan

Recent advances in topological artificial systems open the door to realizing topological states in dimensions higher than the usual three-dimensional space. Here, we present a "tensor product" theory, which offers a method to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Kai Wang , Jia-Xiao Dai , L. B. Shao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

We report in this survey some new results concerning noncommutative Chern characters: construction and the cases when they are exactly computed. The major result indicates some clear relation of these noncommutative objects and their…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Do Ngoc Diep

Topological insulators are exotic material that possess conducting surface states protected by the topology of the system. They can be classified in terms of their properties under discrete symmetries and are characterized by topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-29 M. Mochol-Grzelak , A. Dauphin , A. Celi , M. Lewenstein

Integer and fractional Chern insulators exhibit a nonzero quantized anomalous Hall conductivity due to a spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry. To identify nontrivial topology in their time-reversal symmetric many-body spectra, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Axel Fünfhaus , Titus Neupert , Thilo Kopp , Roser Valentí

In 2D semiconductors and insulators, the Chern number of the valence band Bloch state is an important quantity that has been linked to various material properties, such as the topological order. We elaborate that the opacity of 2D materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-25 Paolo Molignini , Bastien Lapierre , R. Chitra , Wei Chen

Topological band theory establishes a standardized framework for classifying different types of topological matters. Recent investigations have shown that hyperbolic lattices in non-Euclidean space can also be characterized by hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Weixuan Zhang , Fengxiao Di , Xingen Zheng , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Topological band insulators are classified using momentum-space topological invariants, such as Chern or winding numbers, when they feature translational symmetry. The lack of translation symmetry in disordered, quasicrystalline, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Lucien Jezequel , Jens H. Bardarson , Adolfo G. Grushin

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