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That disorder can induce nontrivial topology is a surprising discovery in topological physics. As a typical example, Chern topological Anderson insulators (TAIs) have been realized in photonic systems, where the topological phases exist…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-03 Xiaohan Cui , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

Crystalline symmetries give rise to topological invariants that can distinguish quantum phases of matter. Understanding these in strongly interacting systems is an ongoing research direction requiring non-perturbative methods. Recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Naren Manjunath , Maissam Barkeshli

In recent years, higher-order topological phases have attracted great interest in various fields of physics. These phases have protected boundary states at lower-dimensional boundaries than the conventional first-order topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yan-Bin Yang , Jiong-Hao Wang , Kai Li , Yong Xu

The topology of electronic states in band insulators with mirror symmetry can be classified in two different ways. One is in terms of the mirror Chern number, an integer that counts the number of protected Dirac cones in the Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Tomáš Rauch , Thomas Olsen , David Vanderbilt , Ivo Souza

Twisting symmetries provides an efficient method to diagnose symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. In this paper, edge theories of (2+1)-dimensional topological phases protected by reflection as well as other symmetries are studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Gil Young Cho , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Takahiro Morimoto , Shinsei Ryu

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

The classification of topological insulators predicts the existence of high-dimensional topological phases that cannot occur in real materials, as these are limited to three or fewer spatial dimensions. We use electric circuits to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 You Wang , Hannah M. Price , Baile Zhang , Y. D. Chong

The discovery of quadrupole topology opens a new horizon in the study of topological phenomena. However, the existing experimental realizations of quadrupole topological insulators in symmorphic lattices with $\pi$-fluxes often break the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Zhi-Kang Lin , Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhan Xiong , Ming-Hui Lu , Jian-Hua Jiang

Topological insulator is a new state of matter which exhibits exotic surface electronic properties. Determining the spin texture of this class of material is of paramount importance for understanding its topological order and can lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 Debabrata Sinha

We classify one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases protected by dipole symmetries. A dipole symmetry comprises two sets of symmetry generators: charge and dipole operators, which together form a non-trivial algebra with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-10 Ho Tat Lam

Non-Hermiticity appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

The classification of topological states of matter depends on spatial dimension and symmetry class. For non-interacting topological insulators and superconductors the topological classification is obtained systematically and nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-05 Xiao-Liang Qi

Since topological insulators were theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, more and more attention has been drawn to topological materials which host exotic surface states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Yige Chen , Yuan-Ming Lu , Hae-Young Kee

Crystalline topological insulators owe their topological character to the protection that certain boundary states acquire because of certain point-group symmetries. We first show that a Hermitian operator obeying supersymmetric quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-07 Po-Yao Chang , Christopher Mudry , Shinsei Ryu

Gapless surface states on topological insulators are protected from elastic scattering on non-magnetic impurities which makes them promising candidates for low-power electronic applications. However, for wide-spread applications, these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 Z. -H. Pan , E. Vescovo , A. V. Fedorov , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

Point-gap topological phases of non-Hermitian systems exhibit exotic boundary states that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Here, we develop classification of second-order point-gap topological phases protected by reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yutaro Tanaka , Daichi Nakamura , Ryo Okugawa , Kohei Kawabata

We extend the theory of dipole moments in crystalline insulators to higher multipole moments. In this paper, we expand in great detail the theory presented in Ref. 1, and extend it to cover associated topological pumping phenomena, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes

The non-chiral edge excitations of quantum spin Hall systems and topological insulators are described by means of their partition function. The stability of topological phases protected by time-reversal symmetry is rediscussed in this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Cappelli , Enrico Randellini

Topological insulators are materials that conduct on the surface and insulate in their interior due to non-trivial topological order. The edge states on the interface between topological (non-trivial) and conventional (trivial) insulators…

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