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Topological crystalline insulators define a new class of topological insulator phases with gapless surface states protected by crystalline symmetries. In this work, we present a general theory to classify topological crystalline insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Xiao-Yu Dong , Chao-Xing Liu

The recent discovery of topological insulators has revived interest in the topological properties of insulating band structures. In this work, we extend the topological classification of insulating band structures to include certain point…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Liang Fu

It has been known that an anti-unitary symmetry such as time-reversal or charge conjugation is needed to realize Z2 topological phases in non-interacting systems. Topological insulators and superconducting nanowires are representative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato , Kiyonori Gomi

Topological classification in our previous paper [K. Shiozaki and M. Sato, Phys. Rev. B ${\bf 90}$, 165114 (2014)] is extended to nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators and superconductors. Using the twisted equivariant $K$-theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato , Kiyonori Gomi

Topological crystalline insulators are topological insulators whose surface states are protected by the crystalline symmetry, instead of the time reversal symmetry. Similar to the first generation of three-dimensional topological insulators…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Jie Shen , Judy J. Cha

Usually $Z_2$ topological insulators are protected by time reversal symmetry. Here, we present a new type of $Z_2$ topological insulators in a cubic lattice which is protected by a novel hidden symmetry, while time reversal symmetry is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Jing-Min Hou , Wei Chen

Noninteracting insulating electronic states of matter can be classified according to their symmetries in terms of topological invariants which can be related to effective surface theories. These effective surface theories are in turn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bart de Leeuw , Carolin Küppersbusch , Vladimir Juricic , Lars Fritz

We introduce a novel class of interaction-enabled topological crystalline insulators in two- and three-dimensional electronic systems, which we call "topological crystalline magnet." It is protected by the product of the time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Haruki Watanabe , Liang Fu

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) possess electronic states protected by crystal symmetries, rather than time-reversal symmetry. We show that the transition metal oxides with heavy transition metals are able to support nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Mehdi Kargarian , Gregory A. Fiete

Topological crystalline insulators are new states of matter in which the topological nature of electronic structures arises from crystal symmetries. Here we predict the first material realization of topological crystalline insulator in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-01 Timothy H. Hsieh , Hsin Lin , Junwei Liu , Wenhui Duan , Arun Bansil , Liang Fu

We define a class of insulators with gapless surface states protected from localization due to the statistical properties of a disordered ensemble, namely due to the ensemble's invariance under a certain symmetry. We show that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 I. C. Fulga , B. van Heck , J. M. Edge , A. R. Akhmerov

Crystalline topological phases have recently attracted a lot of experimental and theoretical attention. Key advances include the complete elementary band representation analyses of crystalline matter by symmetry indicators and the discovery…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Eyal Cornfeld , Adam Chapman

We show that in crystalline insulators point group symmetry alone gives rise to a topological classification based on the quantization of electric polarization. Using C3 rotational symmetry as an example, we first prove that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-25 Priyamvada Jadaun , Di Xiao , Qian Niu , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Motivated by intertwined crystal symmetries and topological phases, we study the possible realization of topological insulator in nonsymmorphic crystals at integer fillings. In particular, we consider spin orbit coupled electronic systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Hyeok-Jun Yang , SungBin Lee

Topological crystalline insulators are a class of materials with a bulk energy gap and edge or surface modes, which are protected by crystalline symmetry, at their boundaries. They have been realized in electronic systems: in particular, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Jian-Xiao Zhang , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Chao-Xing Liu

Recent attempts at topological materials have revealed a large class of materials that show gapless surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry and crystal symmetries. Among them, topological insulating states protected by crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-20 J. Howard , A. Rodriguez , N. Haldolaarachchige , K. Hettiarachchilage

Gapless surface states of time reversal invariant topological insulators are protected by the anti-unitary nature of the time reversal operation. Very recently, this idea was generalized to magnetic structures, in which time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

We present a scheme to explicitly construct and classify general topological states jointly protected by an onsite symmetry group and a spatial symmetry group. We show that all these symmetry protected topological states can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Zhida Song , Sheng-Jie Huang , Yang Qi , Chen Fang , Michael Hermele

We prove the existence of higher-order topological insulators in: {\it i}) fourfold rotoinversion invariant bulk crystals, and {\it ii}) inversion-symmetric systems with or without an additional three-fold rotation symmetry. These states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

We discuss recent advances in the study of topological insulators protected by spatial symmetries by reviewing three representative, theoretical examples. In three dimensions, these states of matter are generally characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Alexander Lau , Carmine Ortix
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