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Topological insulators in three dimensions are studied as a problem of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The spin-orbit coupling is induced as a consequence of the supersymmetrization procedure and we show that it is equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

We classify topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of additional symmetries such as reflection or mirror symmetries. For each member of the 10 Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes, we have a Clifford algebra defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki

We demonstrate the existence of topological insulators in one dimension protected by mirror and time-reversal symmetries. They are characterized by a nontrivial $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological invariant defined in terms of the "partial"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Alexander Lau , Jeroen van den Brink , Carmine Ortix

We provide an index-theoretic proof of the bulk-boundary correspondence for two- and three-dimensional second-order topological insulators that preserve inversion symmetry, which are modeled as rectangles and rectangular prism-shaped…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Shin Hayashi

In this manuscript, we study the interplay between symmetry and topology with a focus on the $Z_2$ topological index of 2D/3D topological insulators and high-order topological insulators. We show that in the presence of either a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Heqiu Li , Kai Sun

A remarkable discovery in recent years is that there exist various kinds of topological insulators and superconductors characterized by a periodic table according to the system symmetry and dimensionality. To physically realize these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Dong-Ling Deng , Sheng-Tao Wang , Lu-Ming Duan

We propose a new method to numerically compute the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ indices for disordered topological insulators in Kitaev's periodic table. All of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ indices are known to be derived from the index formulae which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Yutaka Akagi , Hosho Katsura , Tohru Koma

We generalize the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant of topological insulators using noncommutative differential geometry in two different ways. First, we model Majorana zero modes by KQ-cycles in the framework of analytic K-homology, and we define…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

It has been some time since non-commutative geometry was proposed by Jean Bellissard as a theoretical framework for the investigation of homogeneous condensed matter systems. Recently, Bellissard's approach has been enthusiastically adopted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Emil Prodan

We analyze the topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant, which characterizes time reversal invariant topological insulators, in the framework of index theory and K-theory. The topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant counts the parity of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

Nonlinear topological insulators have garnered substantial recent attention as they have both enabled the discovery of new physics due to interparticle interactions, and may have applications in photonic devices such as topological lasers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Stephan Wong , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Topological Insulators are a novel state of matter where spectral bands are characterized by quantized topological invariants. This unique quantized non-local property commonly manifests through exotic bulk phenomena and corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Mark Kremer , Ioannis Petrides , Eric Meyer , Matthias Heinrich , Oded Zilberberg , Alexander Szameit

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

We discuss some bulk-surfaces gapped Hamiltonians on a lattice with corners and propose a periodic table for topological invariants related to corner states aimed at studies of higher-order topological insulators. Our table is based on four…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Shin Hayashi

Topological insulators can be characterized alternatively in terms of bulk or edge properties. We prove the equivalence between the two descriptions for two-dimensional solids in the single-particle picture. We give a new formulation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. M. Graf , M. Porta

Three dimensional topological insulator represents a class of novel quantum phases hosting robust gapless boundary excitations, which is protected by global symmetries such as time reversal, charge conservation and spin rotational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

The topological insulator is an electronic phase stabilized by spin-orbit coupling that supports propagating edge states and is not adiabatically connected to the ordinary insulator. In several ways it is a spin-orbit-induced analogue in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Andrew M. Essin , J. E. Moore

This paper proposes a classification of elliptic (pseudo-)differential Hamiltonians describing topological insulators and superconductors in Euclidean space by means of domain walls. Augmenting a given Hamiltonian by one or several domain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Guillaume Bal

We survey various quantized bulk physical observables in two- and three-dimensional topological band insulators invariant under translational symmetry and crystallographic point group symmetries (PGS). In two-dimensional insulators, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

Morse index theory provides an elegant and useful tool for describing several aspects of a Lagrangian system in terms of its variational properties. In the classical framework it provides an equality between the spectral properties of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Alessandro Portaluri , Li Wu , Ran Yang