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Topological properties of antiferromagnetic phases are studied for a correlated topological band insulator by applying the dynamical mean field theory to an extended Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model including the Hubbard interaction. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-07 Tsuneya Yoshida , Robert Peters , Satoshi Fujimoto , Norio Kawakami

Magnet$/$superconductor hybrids (MSHs) hold the promise to host emergent topological superconducting phases. Both one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems in proximity to s-wave superconductors have shown evidence of…

In this work, we construct a generalized Kane model with a new coupling term between itinerant electron spins and local magnetic moments of anti-ferromagnetic ordering in order to describe the low energy effective physics in a large family…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-05 Jiabin Yu , Binghai Yan , Chao-Xing Liu

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

Two-dimensional (2D) topological electronic insulators are known to give rise to gapless edge modes, which underlie low energy dynamics, including electrical and thermal transport. This has been thoroughly investigated in the context of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Udit Khanna , Yuval Gefen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

We study the topological features of non-interacting insulators subject to an antiferromangetic (AFM) Zeeman field, or AFM insulators, the period of which is commensurate with the lattice period. These insulators can be classified by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

We present a generalization of free fermionic topological insulators that are composed of topological subsystems of differing dimensionality. We specifically focus on topological subsystems of nonzero co-dimension are embedded within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Thomas I. Tuegel , Victor Chua , Taylor L. Hughes

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in recent years. However, identifying a universal topological invariant capable of characterizing higher-order topology remains challenging. Here, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Long Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Jian-Jun Liu , Ying-Tao Zhang

We analyze the phase diagram of a topological insulator model including antiferromagnetic interactions in the form of an extended Su-Schrieffer Heeger model. To this end, we employ a recently introduced operational definition of topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Amit Jamadagni , Hendrik Weimer

Topological crystalline phases in electronic structures can be generally classified using the spatial symmetry characters of the valence bands and mapping them onto appropriate symmetry indicators. These mappings have been recently applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Sander H. Kooi , Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

Recent progress in understanding the topological properties of condensed matter has led to the discovery of time-reversal invariant topological insulators. Because of limitations imposed by nature, topologically non-trivial electronic order…

We analyze generalizations of two dimensional topological insulators which can be realized in interacting, time reversal invariant electron systems. These states, which we call fractional topological insulators, contain excitations with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 Michael Levin , Ady Stern

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

Integration between magnetism and topology is an exotic phenomenon in condensed-matter physics. Here, we propose an exotic phase named topological crystalline antiferromagnetic state, in which antiferromagnetism intrinsically integrates…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-11 Ningning Hao , Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

We show that there exist two dimensional (2D) time reversal invariant fractionalized insulators with the property that both their boundary with the vacuum and their boundary with a topological insulator can be fully gapped without breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-21 Chenjie Wang , Michael Levin

We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by non-interacting Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

We study a generalization of the two-dimensional transverse-field Ising model, combining both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic two-body interactions, that hosts exact global and local Z2 gauge symmetries. Using exact diagonalization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Kai-Hsin Wu , Zhi-Cheng Yang , Dmitry Green , Anders W. Sandvik , Claudio Chamon

We study topological indices of Fermionic time-reversal invariant topological insulators in two dimensions, in the regime of strong Anderson localization. We devise a method to interpolate between certain Fredholm operators arising in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Alex Bols , Jeffrey Schenker , Jacob Shapiro

The abstract notion of topology has led to profound insights into real materials. Notably, the surface and edges of topological materials can host physics, such as unidirectional charge or spin transport, that is unavailable in isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Nicodemos Varnava , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley , David Vanderbilt

Ferromagnetism in topological insulators (TIs) opens a topologically non-trivial exchange band gap, providing an exciting platform to manipulate the topological order through an external magnetic field. Here, we experimentally show that the…