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The theory of topological insulators and superconductors has mostly focused on non-interacting and gapped systems. This review article discusses topological phases that are either gapless or interacting. We discuss recent progress in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-04 Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

Control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves has reached a new level with the recent understanding of topological states of matter. These metamaterials have the potential to revolutionize many areas in traditional electromagnetic…

Lecture-notes: introducing and discussing basics on axion electrodynamics with application in the calculation of the images generated by an electric (or a magnetic) charge located close to an interface ordinary insulator-topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Josep Planelles

In this article, we give an overview over recent developments in the mathematical treatment of topological insulators using coarse geometry.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Matthias Ludewig

The topic of photonic topological insulators and scattering-protected edge states bridges concepts from condensed matter physics and electromagnetics, and necessitates understanding the Berry potential and related concepts. These notes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 George W. Hanson , S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Andrei Nemilentsau

These lecture notes were prepared for a mixed audience of students, postdocs and faculty from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India and neighboring institutions, particularly the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I am not an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-19 R. Shankar

This article is meant as a gentle introduction to the "topological terms" that often play a decisive role in effective theories describing topological quantum effects in condensed matter systems. We first take up several prominent examples,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-20 Akihiro Tanaka , Shintaro Takayoshi

This Perspective examines the emerging applications of photonic topological insulators (PTIs) in the microwave domain. The introduction of topological protection of light has revolutionized the traditional perspective of wave propagation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Shukai Ma , Steven M. Anlage

Topological insulators are newly discovered materials with the defining property that any boundary cut into such crystal supports spectrum which is immune to the Anderson localization. The present paper summarizes our efforts on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Emil Prodan

Topological insulators are a broad class of unconventional materials that are insulating in the interior but conduct along the edges. This edge transport is topologically protected and dissipationless. Until recently, all existing…

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Topological Insulators are the best thermoelectric materials involving a sophisticated physics beyond their solid state and electronic structure. We show that exists a topological contribution to the thermoelectric effect that arise between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Daniel Baldomir , Daniel Faílde

We study spintronics and spincaloritronics in topological insulators. We show spintronics effects in 2D topological insulator junctions and 3D topological insulators coupled to ferromagnets. We also investigate spin polarization on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Takehito Yokoyama , Shuichi Murakami

The traditional concept of phase transitions has, in recent years, been widened in a number of interesting ways. The concept of a topological phase transition separating phases with a different ground state topology, rather than phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 N. Sedlmayr

High-order topological insulators are a recent development extending the topological theory of charge polarization to higher multipole moments. Since their theoretical proposal, several experimental realizations of high-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Marc Serra-Garcia , Roman Süsstrunk , Sebastian D. Huber

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter with metallic edge/surface states. In this paper, we pointed out that there exists a new type of particle-hole symmetry-protected topological insulator - topological hierarchy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-23 Jing He , Chun-Li Zang , Ying Liang , Su-Peng Kou

Ultracold atom research presents many avenues to study problems at the forefront of physics. Due to their unprecedented controllability, these systems are ideally suited to explore new exotic states of matter, which is one of the key…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Indubala I Satija , Erhai Zhao

2D topological insulators promise novel approaches towards electronic, spintronic, and quantum device applications. This is owing to unique features of their electronic band structure, in which bulk-boundary correspondences enforces the…

Quadrupole topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators with quantized quadrupole moments, which support protected gapless corner states. The experimental demonstrations of quadrupole-topological insulators were reported…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Bo Lv , Rui Chen , Rujiang Li , Chunying Guan , Bin Zhou , Guohua Dong , Chao Zhao , YiCheng Li , Ying Wang , Huibin Tao , Jinhui Shi , Dong-Hui Xu

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