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Higher-order topological insulators are established as topological crystalline insulators protected by crystalline symmetries. One celebrated example is the second-order topological insulator in three dimensions that hosts chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yan-Bin Yang , Ning Dai , Yong Xu

Motivated by the study of stacking faults in weak topological insulators and the observation of magnetic domain walls in MnBi$_{2n}$Te$_{3n+1}$, we explore the topological properties of magnetic domain walls in antiferromagnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gabriele Naselli , Ion Cosma Fulga

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) possess electronic states protected by crystal symmetries, rather than time-reversal symmetry. We show that the transition metal oxides with heavy transition metals are able to support nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Mehdi Kargarian , Gregory A. Fiete

Second-order topological insulators and superconductors have a gapped excitation spectrum in bulk and along boundaries, but protected zero modes at corners of a two-dimensional crystal or protected gapless modes at hinges of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Max Geier , Luka Trifunovic , Max Hoskam , Piet W. Brouwer

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

We discuss a topological classification of insulators and superconductors in the presence of both (non-spatial) discrete symmetries in the Altland-Zirnbauer classification and spatial reflection symmetry in any spatial dimensions. By using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Ching-Kai Chiu , Hong Yao , Shinsei Ryu

In the strictly periodic setting, the electric polarization of inversion-symmetric solids with and without time-reversal symmetry and the isotropic magneto-electric response function of time-reversal symmetric insulators are known to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-11 Juntao Song , Emil Prodan

Three-dimensional topological insulators protected by both the time reversal (TR) and mirror symmetries were recently predicted and observed. Two-dimensional materials featuring this property and their potential for device applications have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Carlos Mera Acosta , Adalberto Fazzio

Conventional topological insulators and superconductors have topologically protected nodal points on their boundaries, and the recent interests in nodal-line semimetals only concerned bulk band structures. Here, we present a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-21 L. B. Shao , Y. X. Zhao

Three dimensional topological insulator represents a class of novel quantum phases hosting robust gapless boundary excitations, which is protected by global symmetries such as time reversal, charge conservation and spin rotational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

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

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are classified by topological invariants defined with respect to the crystalline symmetries of their gapped bulk. The bulk-boundary correspondence then links the topological properties of the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Gengming Liu , Violet Workman , Jiho Noh , Yuhao Ma , Taylor L. Hughes , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Gaurav Bahl

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

We explore a large family of one-dimensional (1D) topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) classified by $\mathbb{Z}$ invariants protected by space-time inversion symmetry. This finding stands in marked contrast to the conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ling Lin , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

Recent formal classifications of crystalline topological insulators predict that the combination of time-reversal and rotational symmetry gives rise to topological invariants beyond the ones known for other lattice symmetries. Although the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-01 Jans Henke , Mert Kurttutan , Jorrit Kruthoff , Jasper van Wezel

In a basic framework of a complex Hilbert space equipped with a complex conjugation and an involution, linear operators can be real, quaternionic, symmetric or anti-symmetric, and orthogonal projections can furthermore be symplectic. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Julian Grossmann , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We propose a definition of a ${\mathbb Z}_2$ topological invariant for magnon spin Hall systems which are the bosonic analog of two-dimensional topological insulators in class AII. The existence of "Kramers pairs" in these systems is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Hiroki Kondo , Yutaka Akagi , Hosho Katsura

Topological materials with both insulating and semimetal phases can be protected by crystalline (e.g. mirror) symmetry. The insulating phase, called topological crystalline insulator (TCI), has been intensively investigated and observed in…

Motivated by intertwined crystal symmetries and topological phases, we study the possible realization of topological insulator in nonsymmorphic crystals at integer fillings. In particular, we consider spin orbit coupled electronic systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Hyeok-Jun Yang , SungBin Lee

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