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A two-dimensional topological insulator may arise in a centrosymmetric commensurate N\'{e}el antiferromagnet (AF), where staggered magnetization breaks both the elementary translation and time reversal, but retains their product as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Frédéric Bègue , Pierre Pujol , Revaz Ramazashvili

We consider antiferromagnets breaking both time-reversal (Theta) and a primitive lattice translational symmetry (T) of a crystal but preserving the combination S = Theta T. The S symmetry leads to a Z_2 topological classification of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Roger S. K. Mong , Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore

The study of topological band insulators has revealed fascinating phases characterized by band topology indices and anomalous boundary modes protected by global symmetries. In strongly correlated systems, where the traditional notion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Xu , Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang

Antiferromagnetic materials, whose time-reversal symmetry is broken, can be classified into the Z2 topology if they respect some specific symmetry. Since the theoretical proposal, however, no materials have been found to host the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-30 Kai-Wei Chang , Peng-Jen Chen

We study second-order topological insulators and semimetals characterized by chiral symmetry. We investigate topological phase transitions of a model for construction of the two-dimensional second-order topological insulators protected only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryo Okugawa , Shin Hayashi , Takeshi Nakanishi

Topological Kondo insulators are a rare example of an interaction-enabled topological phase of matter in three-dimensional crystals - making them an intriguing but also hard case for theoretical studies. Here, we aim to advance their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Michael Klett , Seulgi Ok , David Riegler , Peter Wölfle , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert

A topological insulator is a state of matter which does not break any symmetry and is characterized by topological invariants, the integer expectation values of non-local operators. Antiferromagnetism on the other hand is a broken symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-15 R. A. Müller , N. R. Lee-Hone , L. Lapointe , D. H. Ryan , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. D. Bianchi , Y. Mozharivskyj , R. Flacau

Antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFTI) is a topological matter that breaks time-reversal symmetry. Since its proposal, explorations of AFTI in strong-correlated systems are still lacking. In this paper, we show for the first time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-27 Huan Li , Yin Zhong , Yu Liu , Hong-Gang Luo , Hai-Feng Song

We present a general framework for analyzing fractionalized, time reversal invariant electronic insulators in two dimensions. The framework applies to all insulators whose quasiparticles have abelian braiding statistics. First, we construct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Michael Levin , Ady Stern

Antiferromagnetic topological insulators harbor topological in-gap surface states protected by an anti-unitary $S$ symmetry, which is broken by the inevitable presence of domain walls. Whether an antiferromagnetic topological insulator with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Yihao Lin , Ji Feng

We study the topological properties of an antiferromagnetic phase with reflection symmetry in three-dimensional heavy-fermion systems. We here propose a reflection-symmetric topological state in the three-dimensional antiferromagnetic phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Kazuhiro Kimura , Tsuneya Yoshida , Norio Kawakami

We theoretically propose a second-order topological magnon insulator by stacking the van der Waals honeycomb ferromagnets with antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. The system exhibits Z$_{2}$ topological phase, protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Yun-Mei Li , Ya-Jie Wu , Xi-Wang Luo , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

Symmetries play an essential role in identifying and characterizing topological states of matter. Here, we classify topologically two-dimensional (2D) insulators and semimetals with vanishing spin-orbit coupling using time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix , Cristiane Morais Smith

We introduce a novel class of interaction-enabled topological crystalline insulators in two- and three-dimensional electronic systems, which we call "topological crystalline magnet." It is protected by the product of the time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Haruki Watanabe , Liang Fu

The topological phases of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric insulators are classified by a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological invariant. Usually, the invariant is introduced and calculated by exploiting the way time-reversal symmetry acts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

Fractional topological insulators are electronic systems that carry fractionally charged excitations, conserve charge and are symmetric to reversal of time. In this review we introduce the basic essential concepts of the field, and then…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Ady Stern

A 3D fermionic topological insulator has a gapless Dirac surface state protected by time-reversal symmetry and charge conservation symmetry. The surface state can be gapped by introducing ferromagnetism to break time-reversal symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-24 Parsa Bonderson , Chetan Nayak , Xiao-Liang Qi

The role of disorder in the field of three-dimensional time reversal invariant topological insulators has become an active field of research recently. However, the computation of Z2 invariants for large, disordered systems still poses a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Björn Sbierski , Piet W. Brouwer

Two-dimensional topological superconductivity has attracted great interest due to the emergence of Majorana modes bound to vortices and propagating along edges. However, due to its rare appearance in natural compounds, experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 J. L. Lado , M. Sigrist

The recent discovery of antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI) MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has triggered great research efforts on exploring novel magnetic topological physics. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jiaheng Li , Chong Wang , Zetao Zhang , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu
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