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In this letter, we investigate topological phases of full-gapped odd-parity superconductors, which are distinguished by the bulk topological invariants and the topologically protected gapless boundary states. Using the particle-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-20 Masatoshi Sato

We study finite temperature topological phase transitions of the Kitaev's spin honeycomb model in the vortex-free sector with the use of the recently introduced mean Uhlmann curvature. We employ an appropriate Fermionisation procedure to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Francesco Bascone , Luca Leonforte , Bernardo Spagnolo , Davide Valenti , Angelo Carollo

We study a free fermion model where two sets of non-commuting non-projective measurements stabilize area-law entanglement scaling phases of distinct topological order. We show the presence of a topological phase transition that is of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Graham Kells , Dganit Meidan , Alessandro Romito

It is common in condensed matter systems for reflection ($R$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetry to both be broken while the combination $RT$ is preserved. In this paper we study invariants that arise due to $RT$ symmetry. We consider…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Ryohei Kobayashi , Yuxuan Zhang , Yan-Qi Wang , Maissam Barkeshli

The recent discovery of heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ has broadened the possibility of realizing exotic time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconductivity. However, a comprehensive understanding of the topological phases in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Yuki Yamazaki , Shingo Kobayashi

The high-Chern number phases with a Chern number C>1 have been observed in a recent experiment that performed on the topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures, consisting of the alternating magnetic-doped and undoped TI layers. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

For conventional topological phases, the boundary gapless modes are determined by bulk topological invariants. Based on developing an analytic method to solve higher-order boundary modes, we present $PT$-invariant $2$D topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Kai Wang , Jia-Xiao Dai , L. B. Shao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

We study second-order topological insulators and semimetals characterized by chiral symmetry. We investigate topological phase transitions of a model for construction of the two-dimensional second-order topological insulators protected only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryo Okugawa , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

For inversion-symmetric topological insulators and superconductors characterized by ${\mathbb Z}_{2}$ topological invariants, two scaling schemes are proposed to judge topological phase transitions driven by an energy parameter. The scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Andreas P. Schnyder

We study ultracold color fermions with three internal states Red, Green and Blue with ${\rm SU(3)}$ symmetry in optical lattices, when color-orbit coupling and color-flip fields are present. This system corresponds to a generalization of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-07 Man Hon Yau , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We present a dimensional reduction argument to derive the classification reduction of fermionic symmetry protected topological phases in the presence of interactions. The dimensional reduction proceeds by relating the topological character…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 Raquel Queiroz , Eslam Khalaf , Ady Stern

The detection of topological phases of matter becomes a central issue in recent years. Conventionally, the realization of a specific topological phase in condensed matter physics relies on probing the underlying surface band dispersion or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tao Xin , Yishan Li , Yu-ang Fan , Xuanran Zhu , Yingjie Zhang , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Qihang Liu , Dawei Lu

Polaritonic lattice configurations in dimensions $D=2$ are used as simulators of topological phases, based on symmetry class A Hamiltonians. Numerical and topological studies are performed in order to characterise the bulk topology of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Konstantin Rips

It is known that, in the thermodynamic limit, the Chern number of a translationally invariant system cannot change under unitary time evolutions that are smooth in momentum space. Yet a real-space counterpart of the Chern number, the Bott…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-01 Yang Ge , Marcos Rigol

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

Topological phase transitions are typically characterized by abrupt changes in a quantized invariant. Here we report a contrasting paradigm in non-Hermitian parity-time symmetric systems, where the topological invariant remains conserved,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Kang Yang , Zhi Li , Peng Xue , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

We investigate the order of the topological quantum phase transition in a two dimensional quadrupolar topological insulator within a thermodynamic approach. Using numerical methods, we separate the bulk, edge and corner contributions to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 R. Arouca , S. N. Kempkes , C. Morais Smith

We discuss the relation between particle number conservation and topological phases. In four spatial dimensions, we find that systems belonging to different topological phases in the presence of a U(1) charge conservation can be connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Jan Carl Budich

Thermal density matrices can be described by a pure quantum state within the thermofield formalism. Here we show how to construct a class of Hamiltonians realizing a thermofield state as their ground state. These Hamiltonians are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-06 Adrian E. Feiguin , Israel Klich

Higher-order topological phases are characterized by protected states localized at the corners or hinges of the system. By applying time-periodic quenches to a two-dimensional lattice with balanced gain and loss, we obtain a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou