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Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials provide an ideal playground for studying the combined interplay of strong interactions and band-topology over a range of electronic fillings. Here we investigate the panoply of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama , Sunghoon Kim , Debanjan Chowdhury

We demonstrate theoretically an atomic liquid phase that supports topologically nontrivial electronic structure. A minimum two-orbital model of liquid topological insulator in two dimensions is constructed within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Gia-Wei Chern

A major challenge in condensed matter physics is integrating topological phenomena with correlated electron physics to leverage both types of states for next-generation quantum devices. Metal-insulator transitions (MITs) are central to…

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Su-Yang Xu , Y. Xia , L. A. Wray , D. Qian , Shuang Jia , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , J. Osterwalder , B. Slomski , H. Lin , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

We discuss the relation between bulk topological invariants and the spectrum of surface states in three dimensional non-interacting topological insulators. By studying particular models, and considering general boundary conditions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Isaev , Y. H. Moon , G. Ortiz

Topology is now securely established as a means to explore and classify electronic states in crystalline solids. This review provides a gentle but firm introduction to topological electronic band structure suitable for new researchers in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-28 Andrew T. Boothroyd

Traditional ionic/covalent compound insulators arise from a commensuration between electron count and system volume. On the other hand, conventional topological insulators, outside of quantum hall effect systems, do not typically display…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Abijith Krishnan , Ashvin Vishwanath , Hoi Chun Po

We investigate states on the surface of strong and weak topological insulators and superconductors that have been gapped by a symmetry breaking term. The surface of a strong 3D topological insulator gapped by a magnetic material is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Ching-Kai Chiu

Modern theory of electric polarization is formulated by the Berry phase, which, when quantized, leads to topological phases of matter. Such a formulation has recently been extended to higher electric multipole moments, through the discovery…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Yan-Bin Yang , Kai Li , L. -M. Duan , Yong Xu

Topological insulators are a new class of insulators in which a bulk gap for electronic excitations is generated by strong spin orbit coupling. These novel materials are distinguished from ordinary insulators by the presence of gapless…

This article contains a theoretical overview of the physical properties of antiferromagnetic Mott insulators in spatial dimensions greater than one. Many such materials have been experimentally studied in the past decade and a half, and we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Subir Sachdev

It is well known that the 3D electronic topological insulator (TI) with charge-conservation and time-reversal symmetry cannot have a trivial insulating surface that preserves symmetry. It is often implicitly assumed that if the TI surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-20 Chong Wang , Andrew C. Potter , T. Senthil

The classification of electron systems according to their topology has been at the forefront of condensed matter research in recent years. It has been found that systems of the same symmetry, previously thought of as equivalent, may in fact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , Shunji Matsuura , T. Pereg-Barnea

Recently realized higher order topological insulators have taken a surge of interest among the theoretical and experimental condensed matter community. The two-dimensional second order topological insulators give rise to zero-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 R. Banerjee , S. Mandal , T. C. H. Liew

We investigate a tight-binding model of the octahedron-decorated cubic lattice with spin-orbit coupling. We calculate the band structure of the lattice and evaluate the Z_2 topological indices. According to the Z_2 topological indices and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing-Min Hou , Wen-Xin Zhang , Guo-Xiang Wang

In this lecture for the Nobel symposium, we review previous research on a class of translational-invariant insulators without spin-orbit coupling. These may be realized in intrinsically spinless systems such as photonic crystals and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-14 A. Alexandradinata , B. Andrei Bernevig

The topological phases of non-interacting fermions have been classified by their symmetries, culminating in a modern electronic band theory where wavefunction topology can be obtained (in part) from momentum space. Recently, Real Space…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-27 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

Fractional topological insulators are electronic systems that carry fractionally charged excitations, conserve charge and are symmetric to reversal of time. In this review we introduce the basic essential concepts of the field, and then…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Ady Stern

Higher-order topological crystalline phases in low-dimensional interacting quantum systems represent a challenging and largely unexplored research topic. Here, we derive a Hamiltonian describing fermions interacting through correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-04 A. Montorsi , U. Bhattacharya , Daniel González-Cuadra , M. Lewenstein , G. Palumbo , L. Barbiero