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We present models of topological insulating Hamiltonians exhibiting intrinsic altermagnetic features, protected by combined three-fold or four-fold rotational symmetries with time-reversal. We demonstrate that the spin Chern number serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

Understanding how topology survives in strongly correlated systems remains a central challenge, as most topological diagnostics rely on non-interacting band structures. Here we present a framework to characterize interacting topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Theo N. Dionne , Maia G. Vergniory

Quantum algorithms provide a potential strategy for solving computational problems that are intractable by classical means. Computing the topological invariants of topological matter is one central problem in research on quantum materials,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Marcel Niedermeier , Marc Nairn , Christian Flindt , Jose L. Lado

Two-dimensional 2-bands insulators breaking time reversal symmetry can present topological phases indexed by a topological invariant called the Chern number. Here we first propose an efficient procedure to determine this topological index.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Doru Sticlet , Frederic Piéchon , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Pavel Kalugin , Pascal Simon

We present two modules that expand functionalities of the all-electron full-potential density functional theory package WIEN2k for computation of the Chern and $Z_2$ topological invariants. Characterization of topological properties relies…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Andres F. Gomez-Bastidas , Oleg Rubel

The prediction of non-trivial topological phases in Bloch insulators in three dimensions has recently been experimentally verified. Here, I provide a picture for obtaining the $Z_{2}$ invariants for a three dimensional topological insulator…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-21 Rahul Roy

We propose to use generic Chern numbers for a characterization of topological insulators. It is suitable for a numerical characterization of low dimensional quantum liquids where strong quantum fluctuations prevent from developing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Hatsugai

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 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

We study effect of interactions on time-reversal-invariant topological insulators. Their topological indices are expressed by interacting Green's functions. Under the local self-energy approximation, we connect topological index and surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-29 Lei Wang , Hua Jiang , Xi Dai , X. C. Xie

Topological insulators are noninteracting, gapped fermionic systems which have gapless boundary excitations. They are characterized by topological invariants, which can be written in many different ways, including in terms of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Andrew M. Essin , Victor Gurarie

The study of topological property of band insulators is an interesting branch of condensed matter physics. Two types of topologically nontrivial insulators have been extensively studied. The first type is characterized by a nonzero TKNN…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-15 Yi-Dong Wu

We propose an alternative formulation of the $Z_2$ topological index for quantum spin Hall systems and band insulators when time reversal invariance is not broken. The index is expressed in terms of the Chern numbers of the bands of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Rahul Roy

We investigate the relationship between the analytical properties of the Green's function and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulators, focusing on three-dimensional inversion-symmetric systems. We show that the diagonal zeros of the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Florian Simon , Corentin Morice

We theoretically study topological phase transitions in four generalized versions of the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model with up to $2\times 18^2$ sites. All models are free of the fermion-sign problem allowing numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-10 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Victor Chua , Lei Wang , Gregory A. Fiete

We proposed a group-theory method to calculate topological invariant in bi-isotropic photonic crystals invariant under crystallographic point group symmetries. Spin Chern number has been evaluated by the eigenvalues of rotation operators at…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-11 Xiao-Dong Chen , Zi-Lan Deng , Wen-Jie Chen , Jia-Rong Wang , Jian-Wen Dong

If an extensive partition in two dimensions yields a gapful entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix, the Berry curvature based on the corresponding entanglement eigenfunction defines the Chern number. We propose such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Fukui , Y. Hatsugai

Topological invariants are global properties of the ground-state wave function, typically defined as winding numbers in reciprocal space. Over the years, a number of topological markers in real space have been introduced, allowing to map…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

We define a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued topological and gauge invariant associated to any 1-dimensional, translation-invariant topological insulator which satisfies either particle-hole symmetry or chiral symmetry. The invariant can be computed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Domenico Monaco , Gabriele Peluso

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