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The occurrence of a topological phase transition can be demonstrated by a direct observation of a change in the topological invariant. For holographic topological semimetals, a topological Hamiltonian method needs to be employed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-15 Xiantong Chen , Xuanting Ji , Ya-Wen Sun

Topological invariants, such as the Chern number, characterise topological phases of matter. Here we provide a method to detect Chern numbers in systems with two distinct species of fermion, such as spins, orbitals or several atomic states.…

Following the centuries old concept of the quantization of flux through a Gaussian curvature (Euler characteristic) and its successive dispersal into various condensed matter properties such as quantum Hall effect, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Tanmoy Das

We apply ideas from $C^*$-algebra to the study of disordered topological insulators. We extract certain almost commuting matrices from the free Fermi Hamiltonian, describing band projected coordinate matrices. By considering topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 M. B. Hastings , T. A. Loring

We discuss the topological invariant in the (2+1)-dimensional quench dynamics of a two-dimensional two-band Chern insulator starting from a topological initial state (i.e., with a nonzero Chern number $c_i$), evolved by a post-quench…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-12 Xin Chen , Ce Wang , Jinlong Yu

Topological insulators present a bulk gap, but allow for dissipationless spin transport along the edges. These exotic states are characterized by the $Z_2$ topological invariant and are protected by time-reversal symmetry. The Kane-Mele…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-10 Zi Yang Meng , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Thomas C. Lang

For inversion-symmetric topological insulators and superconductors characterized by ${\mathbb Z}_{2}$ topological invariants, two scaling schemes are proposed to judge topological phase transitions driven by an energy parameter. The scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Andreas P. Schnyder

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new quantum state of matter discovered recently, which are characterized by unconventional bulk topological invariants. Proposals for practical applications of the TIs are mostly based upon their metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 M. N. Chen , L. Sheng , R. Shen , D. N. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

The Bloch wave functions have been playing a crucial role in the diagnosis of topological phases in non-interacting systems. However, the Bloch waves are no longer applicable in the presence of finite Coulomb interaction and alternative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-26 Heqiu Li , Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim

It is known that three-dimensional magnetic systems with glide symmetry can be characterized by a $Z_2$ topological invariant together with the Chern number associated with the normal vector of the glide plane, and they are expressed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Heejae Kim , Ken Shiozaki , Shuichi Murakami

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

Understanding correlation effects in topological phases of matter is at the forefront of current research in condensed matter physics. Here we try to clarify some subtleties in studying topological behaviors of interacting Weyl semimetals.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-30 Min-Fong Yang

We study interaction induced topological phase transition in Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model. Topological nature of the phase transition is revealed by directly calculating the Z2 index of the interacting system from the single-particle Green's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-26 Lei Wang , Xi Dai , X. C. Xie

Topological materials are characterized by integer invariants that underpin their robust quantized electronic features, as famously exemplified by the Chern number in the integer quantum Hall effect. Yet, in most candidate systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yuval Abulafia , Eric Akkermans

The high-Chern number phases with a Chern number C>1 have been observed in a recent experiment that performed on the topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures, consisting of the alternating magnetic-doped and undoped TI layers. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

The quantum nature of electron spin is crucial for establishing topological invariants in real materials. Since the spin does not in general commute with the Hamiltonian, some of the topological features of the material can be extracted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-08 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

Realizing topological insulators is of great current interest because of their remarkable properties and possible future applications. There are recent proposals, based on Floquet analyses, that one can generate topologically nontrivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-02 Luca D'Alessio , Marcos Rigol

We use the Dirac cone model to explore the high Chern number (C) phases that are realized in the magnetic-doped topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures by Zhao et al. [Nature 588, 419 (2020)]. The Chern number is calculated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

Topological insulator(TI) is a phase of matter discovered recently. Kane and Mele proposed this phase is distinguished from the ordinary band insulator by a Z2 topological invariant.2 Several authors have try to related this Z2 invariant to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-01 Yidong Wu