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Topological insulators (TIs) are a recently discovered class of materials having insulating bulk electronic states but conducting boundary states distinguished by nontrivial topology. So far, several generations of TIs have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-23 Z. F. Wang , Zheng Liu , Feng Liu

Symmetry plays a critical role in classifying phases of matter. This is exemplified by how crystalline symmetries enrich the topological classification of materials and enable unconventional phenomena in topologically nontrivial ones. After…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Tianzi Li , Juan Du , Qicheng Zhang , Yitong Li , Xiying Fan , Fan Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

The search for new topological materials and states of matter is presently at the forefront of quantum materials research. One powerful approach to novel topological phases beyond the thermodynamic space is to combine different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Pavel P. Shibayev , Elio J. König , Maryam Salehi , Jisoo Moon , Myung-Geun Han , Seongshik Oh

Recently, the topological physics in artificial crystals for classical waves has become an emerging research area. In this Letter, we propose a unique bilayer design of sonic crystals that are constructed by two layers of coupled hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Jiuyang Lu , Chunyin Qiu , Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Feng Li , Fan Zhang , Shuqi Chen , Zhengyou Liu

Topological insulators (TIs) host novel states of quantum matter, distinguished from trivial insulators by the presence of nontrivial conducting boundary states connecting the valence and conduction bulk bands. Up to date, all the TIs…

Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and practical reasons. Although most current studies focus on…

Topological insulator (TI) represents an unconventional quantum phase of matter with insulating bulk bandgap and metallic surface states. Recent theoretical calculations and photoemission spectroscopy measurements show that Group V-VI…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Desheng Kong , Wenhui Dang , Judy J. Cha , Hui Li , Stefan Meister , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Yi Cui

Recent theoretical advances have proposed a new class of topological crystalline insulator (TCI) phases protected by rotational symmetries. Distinct from topological insulators (TIs), rotational symmetry-protected TCIs are expected to show…

Structural imperfections such as grain boundaries (GBs) and dislocations are ubiquitous in solids and have been of central importance in understanding nature of polycrystals. In addition to their classical roles, advent of topological…

Second-order topological insulators and superconductors have a gapped excitation spectrum in bulk and along boundaries, but protected zero modes at corners of a two-dimensional crystal or protected gapless modes at hinges of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Max Geier , Luka Trifunovic , Max Hoskam , Piet W. Brouwer

Nanostructures, such a quantum dots or nanoparticles, made of three-dimensional topological insulators (3DTIs) have been recently attracting increasing interest, especially for their optical properties. In this paper we calculate the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Michele Governale , Fabio Taddei

Topological insulators are materials with a bulk excitation gap generated by the spin orbit interaction, and which are different from conventional insulators. This distinction is characterized by Z_2 topological invariants, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Topological insulators (TIs) are a class of materials characterized by an insulting bulk and high mobility topologically protected surface states, making them promising candidates for future optoelectronic and quantum devices. Although…

Despite recent advances of layered square-net topological material models that possess ideal semimetallic electronic structures and promising potential in material applications, the identification of experimentally accessible…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-04 Zhenyao Fang , Andrew M. Rappe

Magnetic topological insulators (TIs) provide a highly tunable platform for engineering quantum states that emerge from the interplay between topology and magnetism. In this review article, we summarize experimental progress over the past…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Cui-Zu Chang

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are unique systems where a band inversion that is protected by crystalline mirror symmetry leads to a multiplicity of topological surface states. Binary SnTe is an attractive lead-free TCI compound;…

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

Regarding three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators and semimetals as a stack of constituent 2D topological (or sometimes non-topological) layers is a useful viewpoint. Primarily, concrete theoretical models of the paradigmatic 3D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Yukinori Yoshimura , Wataru Onishi , Koji Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Recently, the studies of topological corner states (TCSs) are extended from crystals to quasicrystals, which are referred to as higher-order topological quasicrystalline insulators (HOTQIs). However, the TCSs of complete quasi-periodic…