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Intrinsic topological superconductors have protected gapless Majorana modes, bound and/or propagating, at the natural boundaries of the sample, without requiring field, defect, or heterostructure. We establish the complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Zhongyi Zhang , Jie Ren , Yang Qi , Chen Fang

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

Mechanical topological insulators are well understood for linear and weakly nonlinear systems, however traditional analysis methods break down for strongly nonlinear systems since linear methods can not be applied in that case. We study one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Joshua R. Tempelman , Kathryn H. Matlack , Alexander F. Vakakis

The method of the space dependent basis is applied to study electronic spinors in a crystal. The crystal in the momentum space is described by the Brillouine zone which might contains obstructions or degeneracies for which requires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 D. Schmeltzer

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the notion of topological phase reflecting metric structure of the position space. This framework contains not only periodic and non-periodic systems with symmetries in Kitaev's periodic table but…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Yosuke Kubota

We define a class of insulators with gapless surface states protected from localization due to the statistical properties of a disordered ensemble, namely due to the ensemble's invariance under a certain symmetry. We show that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 I. C. Fulga , B. van Heck , J. M. Edge , A. R. Akhmerov

In this paper we continue the study of the superconformal index of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ in the presence of surface defects. Our main result is the construction of an algebra of difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 Mathew Bullimore , Martin Fluder , Lotte Hollands , Paul Richmond

Supersymmetry has been studied at a linear level between normal modes of metamaterials described by rigidity matrices and non-interacting quantum Hamiltonians. The connection between classical and quantum was made through the matrices…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-21 Po-Wei Lo , Chao-Ming Jian , Michael J Lawler

We present the exhaustive classification of surface states of topological insulators and superconductors protected by crystallographic magnetic point group symmetry in three spatial dimensions. Recently, Cornfeld and Chapman [Phys. Rev. B…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Ken Shiozaki

We introduce a Hamiltonian for fermions on a lattice and prove a theorem regarding its topological properties. We identify the topological criterion as a $\mathbb{Z}_2-$ topological invariant $p(\textbf{k})$ (the Pfaffian polynomial). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Bruno Mera , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Vítor R. Vieira

We derive a $\mathbb{Z}_4$ topological invariant that extends beyond symmetry eigenvalues and Wilson loops and classifies two-dimensional insulators with a $C_4 \mathcal{T}$ symmetry. To formulate this invariant, we consider an irreducible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Isidora Araya Day , Anastasiia Varentcova , Daniel Varjas , Anton R. Akhmerov

The topology of the Brillouin zone, foundational in topological physics, is always assumed to be a torus. We theoretically report the construction of Brillouin real projective plane ($\mathrm{RP}^2$) and the appearance of quadrupole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Jinbing Hu , Songlin Zhuang , Yi Yang

Gapped phases of noninteracting fermions, with and without charge conservation and time-reversal symmetry, are classified using Bott periodicity. The symmetry and spatial dimension determines a general universality class, which corresponds…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexei Kitaev

We prove the existence of higher-order topological insulators in: {\it i}) fourfold rotoinversion invariant bulk crystals, and {\it ii}) inversion-symmetric systems with or without an additional three-fold rotation symmetry. These states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

We detect the topological properties of Chern insulators with strong Coulomb interactions by use of cluster perturbation theory and variational cluster approach. The common scheme in previous studies only involves the calculation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-30 Zhao-Long Gu , Kai Li , Jian-Xin Li

Index theorem is formulated in noncommutative geometry with finite degrees of freedom by using Ginsparg-Wilson relation. It is extended to the case where the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. Dynamical analysis about topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Hajime Aoki

This contribution describes the mathematical theory of topological indices in solid state systems composed of non-interacting Fermions. In particular, this covers the spectral localizer and the bulk-boundary correspondence.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Protected by the chiral symmetry, three dimensional chiral topological insulators are characterized by an integer-valued topological invariant. How this invariant could emerge in physical observables is an important question. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Sheng-Tao Wang , Dong-Ling Deng , Joel E. Moore , Kai Sun , Lu-Ming Duan

We consider the problem of calculating the weak and strong topological indices in noncentrosymmetric time-reversal (T) invariant insulators. In 2D we use a gauge corresponding to hybrid Wannier functions that are maximally localized in one…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-07 Alexey A. Soluyanov , David Vanderbilt

We demonstrate theoretically that a strong high-frequency circularly polarized electromagnetic field can turn a two-dimensional periodic array of interconnected quantum rings into a topological insulator. The elaborated approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 V. K. Kozin , I. V. Iorsh , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh
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