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Bulk TiSe$_2$ is an intrinsically layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hosting both superconducting and charge density wave (CDW) ordering. Motivated by the recent progress in preparing two-dimensional TMDs, we study these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-04 R. Ganesh , G. Baskaran , Jeroen van den Brink , Dmitry V. Efremov

Topological insulators are new class of quantum materials, which have insulating energy gaps in bulk, but exhibit gapless edge states or surface states that are protected by time-reversal symmetry at boundary. It was theoretically predicted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 G. H. Cao , H. J. Liu , J. H. Liang , L. Cheng , D. D. Fan , Z. Y. Zhang

We introduce a web of strongly correlated interacting 3+1D topological superconductors/insulators of 10 particular global symmetry groups of Cartan classes, realizable in electronic condensed matter systems, and their new SU(N)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-01 Meng Guo , Pavel Putrov , Juven Wang

Bundle gerbes are simple examples of higher geometric structures that show their utility in dealing with topological subtleties of physical theories. I review a recent construction of torsion topological invariants for condensed matter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Krzysztof Gawedzki

The search for strongly inversion asymmetric topological insulators is an active research field because these materials possess distinct properties compared with the inversion symmetric ones. In particular, it is desirable to realize a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-28 Jin-Jian Zhou , Wanxiang Feng , Ying Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yugui Yao

By employing a series of experimental techniques, we provide clear evidence that CaPtAs represents a rare example of a noncentrosymmetric superconductor which simultaneously exhibits nodes in the superconducting gap and broken time-reversal…

Three-dimensional topological (crystalline) insulators are materials with an insulating bulk, but conducting surface states which are topologically protected by time-reversal (or spatial) symmetries. Here, we extend the notion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Frank Schindler , Ashley M. Cook , Maia G. Vergniory , Zhijun Wang , Stuart S. P. Parkin , B. Andrei Bernevig , Titus Neupert

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

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI) are novel quantum materials with insulating bulk and topologically protected metallic surfaces with Dirac-like band structure. The spin-helical Dirac surface states are expected to host…

Topological superconductors (TSCs), with the capability to host Majorana bound states that can lead to non-Abelian statistics and application in quantum computation, have been one of the most intensively studied topics in condensed matter…

Topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) exhibit bulk Dirac cones protected by time reversal and crystal symmetry, as well as surface states originating from non-trivial topology. While there is a manifold possible onset of superconducting order…

A brief review of microscopic studies of high-Tc superconductors HgBa2CuO4+d and HgBa2CaCu2O6+d is presented. The topics concerned are the pseudo spin-gap, the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations near the quantum critical point, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-19 Y. Itoh , T. Machi

Recent years have seen multiple high-throughput studies reveal an immense number of topological materials through use of symmetry indicators. Despite this success, three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) admitting a band-gap larger…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-13 Alexander C. Tyner , Pallab Goswami

Topological superconductivity is an exotic phenomenon due to the symmetry-protected topological surface state, in which a quantum system has an energy gap in the bulk but supports gapless excitations confined to its boundary. Symmetries…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-09 Z. H. Zhu , C. Tan , J. Zhang , P. K. Biswas , A. D. Hillier , M. X. Wang , Y. X. Yang , C. S. Chen , Z. F. Ding , S. Y. Li , L. Shu

Recently, the niobium (Nb)-doped topological insulator Bi_2Se_3, in which the finite magnetic moments of the Nb atoms are intercalated in the van der Waals gap between the Bi_2Se_3 layers, has been shown to exhibit both superconductivity…

Magnetic topological insulators such as Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3 provide a platform for the realization of versatile time-reversal symmetry-breaking physics. By constructing heterostructures with N\'eel order in an antiferromagnetic CrSb and…

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum materials in which time-reversal symmetry, relativistic (spin-orbit) effects and an inverted band structure result in electronic metallic states on the surfaces of bulk crystals. These…

Alloying indium into the topological insulator Sn1-xInxBi2Te4 induces bulk superconductivity with critical temperatures Tc up to 1.85 K and upper critical fields up to about 14 kOe. This is confirmed by electrical resistivity, heat…

High-temperature superconductors (high-Tc SCs) host a rich landscape of electronic phases encompassing the pseudogap, strange metal, superconducting, antiferromagnetic insulating, and Fermi-liquid regimes. The superconducting phase is…

Superconducting topological metals (SCTMs) have recently emerged as a promising platform of topological superconductivity (TSC) and Majorana zero modes(MZMs) for quantum computation. Despite their importance in both fundamental research and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-18 Aiyun Luo , Ying Li , Yi Qin , Jingnan Hu , Biao Lian , Gang Xu