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We show that edges of Quantum Spin Hall topological insulators represent a natural platform for realization of exotic supersolid phase. On one hand, fermionic edge modes are helical due to the nontrivial topology of the bulk. On the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 O. M. Yevtushenko , A. M. Tsvelik

Effects of an open surface on a magnetic Chern insulator are investigated in comparison with those of an interface to a capping magnetic layer. In magnets, an open surface often perturbs the magnetic order by a reconstruction of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Ryo Ozawa , Masafumi Udagawa , Yutaka Akagi , Yukitoshi Motome

Edge states in topological insulators (TIs) disperse symmetrically about one of the time-reversal invariant momenta $\Lambda$ in the Brillouin zone (BZ) with protected degeneracies at $\Lambda$. Commonly TIs are distinguished from trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 H. Deshpande , R. Winkler

The electronic band structure of Weyl semimetals possesses pairs of linear band crossings, called Weyl nodes, characterized by opposite chirality charges associated with each node. The momentum space position of the nodes can reverse across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Eklavya Thareja , Gina Pantano , Ilya Vekhter , Jacob Gayles

We study the properties of one-dimensional topological superconductors under the influence of generic boundary conditions mimicking the coupling with external environments. We identify a general four-parameters classification of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 A. Maiellaro , F. Romeo , F. Illuminati

We theoretically investigated the topological-protected edge states (TESs) in an anisotropic honeycomb lattice with mirror and chiral symmetries, characterized by an alternative topological invariant - fractional polarization (FP), rather…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Wei Jie Chan , Peihao Fu , L. K. Ang , Yee Sin Ang

In this work, we study the disorder effect on topological metals that support a pair of helical edge modes deeply embedded inside the gapless bulk states. Strikingly, we predict that a quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase can be obtained from such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Chui-Zhen Chen , Hua Jiang , Dong-Hui Xu , X. C. Xie

The stability to interactions and disorder of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) proposed for time-reversal-invariant 2D systems is discussed. The QSHE requires an energy gap in the bulk and gapless edge modes that conduct spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 Cenke Xu , J. E. Moore

We study the topological edge states of the Haldane's graphene model with zigzag/armchair lattice edges. The Harper equation for solving the energies of the edge states is derived. The results show that there are two edge states in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-05 Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yupeng Wang

The edges of graphene and graphene like systems can host localized states with evanescent wave function with properties radically different from those of the Dirac electrons in bulk. This happens in a variety of situations, that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 J. L. Lado , N. Garcia-Martinez , J. Fernandez-Rossier

The existence of robust chiral edge states in a finite topologically nontrivial chern insulator is a consequence of the bulk-boundary correspondence. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework based on lattice Green's function to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 M. Soltani , M. Amini

Edge states in narrow quasi two-dimensional nanostructures determine, to a large extent, their electric, thermoelectric and magnetic properties. Non-magnetic edge states may quite often lead to topological insulator type behavior. However…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Stefan Krompiewski , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Edge states of chiral topologically ordered phases are commonly described by chiral Luttinger liquids, effective theories that are exact only in the hydrodynamic limit. Motivated by recent bulk observations of fractional Chern insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Yan-Qi Wang , Johannes Motruk , Andrey Grankin , Mohammad Hafezi

Bulk-edge correspondence is one of the most distinct properties of topological insulators. In particular, the 1D winding number $\n$ has a one-to-one correspondence to the number of edge states in a chain of topological insulators with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Han-Ting Chen , Chia-Hsun Chang , Hsien-chung Kao

We propose a two-dimensional non-Hermitian Chern insulator with inversion symmetry, which is anisotropic and has staggered gain and loss in both x and y directions. In this system, conventional bulk-boundary correspondence holds. The Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

We find that the Berry curvature splits the edge plasmons propagating along the opposite directions in quantum anomalous Hall insulators even with vanishing Chern number. When the bulk is insulating, only one unidirectional edge plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Furu Zhang , Chenxi Ding , Jianhui Zhou , Yugui Yao

We show that edge states similar to those known for topological insulators exist in two-dimensional electron system with one-band spectrum in the presence of heterogeneous spin-orbit interaction (SOI). These states appear at boundaries…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov

We investigate the chiral edge states in the two-dimensional ferromagntic kagom\'{e} lattice with spin anisotropies included. The system is periodic in the $x$ direction but has two edges in the $y$ direction. The Harper equation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

Quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor heterostructures are predicted to host chiral Majorana fermions as edge modes, which is essential for topological quantum computing applications. Although the edge states have been extensively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xin Yue , Guo-Jian Qiao

More physics at the boundaries of a topological lattice remains to be explored for future applications of topological edge states. This work investigates the stability of topological edge states in the presence of a moving impurity. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Baikang Yuan , Jiangbin Gong