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The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient characteristics of topological states, enabling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Arun Bansil , Hsin Lin , Tanmoy Das

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

In this lecture for the Nobel symposium, we review previous research on a class of translational-invariant insulators without spin-orbit coupling. These may be realized in intrinsically spinless systems such as photonic crystals and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-14 A. Alexandradinata , B. Andrei Bernevig

A typical crystal is a finite piece of a material which may be invariant under some point symmetry group. If it is a so-called intrinsic higher-order topological insulator or superconductor, then it displays boundary modes at hinges or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Danilo Polo Ojito , Emil Prodan , Tom Stoiber

While the classification of non-interacting crystalline topological insulator phases by equivariant K-theory has become widely accepted, its generalization to anyonic interacting phases -- hence to phases with topologically ordered ground…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Hisham Sati , Urs Schreiber

Although the richness of spatial symmetries has led to a rapidly expanding inventory of possible topological crystalline (TC) phases of electrons, physical realizations have been slow to materialize due to the practical difficulty to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

Topological phases for free fermions in systems with crystal symmetry are classified by the topology of the valence band viewed as a vector bundle over the Brillouin zone. Additional symmetries, such as crystal symmetries which act…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Luuk Stehouwer , Jan de Boer , Jorrit Kruthoff , Hessel Posthuma

Chiral crystals are materials whose lattice structure has a well-defined handedness due to the lack of inversion, mirror, or other roto-inversion symmetries. These crystals represent a broad, important class of quantum materials; their…

Topological insulators are a new class of insulators in which a bulk gap for electronic excitations is generated by strong spin orbit coupling. These novel materials are distinguished from ordinary insulators by the presence of gapless…

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

Crystalline symmetries play an important role in the classification of band structures, and the rich variety of spatial symmetries in solids leads to various topological crystalline phases (TCPs). However, compared with topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

We discuss the magnetic and topological properties of bulk crystals and quasi-two-dimensional thin films formed by stacking intrinsic magnetized topological insulator ( for example Mn(Sb$_{x}$Bi$_{1-x}$)$_2$X$_4$ with X = Se,Te, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Chao Lei , Shu Chen , Allan H. MacDonald

Topological surface states, a new kind of electronic state of matter, have recently been observed on the cleaved surfaces of crystals of a handful of small band gap semiconductors. The underlying chemical factors that enable these states…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-19 R. J. Cava , Huiwen Ji , M. K. Fuccillo , Q. D. Gibson , Y. S. Hor

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are insulating electronic phases of matter with nontrivial topology originating from crystalline symmetries. Recent theoretical advances have provided powerful guidelines to search for TCIs in real…

It has been realized over the past two decades that topological nontriviality can be present not only in insulators but also in gapless semimetals, the most prominent example being Weyl semimetals in three dimensions. Key to topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Faruk Abdulla , Ganpathy Murthy , Ankur Das

Topological phases of matter have sparked an immense amount of activity in recent decades. Topological materials are classified by topological invariants that act as a non-local order parameter for any symmetry and condition. As a result,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-08 Oded Zilberberg

Nonlinear topological insulators have garnered substantial recent attention as they have both enabled the discovery of new physics due to interparticle interactions, and may have applications in photonic devices such as topological lasers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Stephan Wong , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) can host anomalous surface states which inherits the characteristics of crystalline symmetry that protects the bulk topology. Especially, the diversity of magnetic crystalline symmetries indicates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Yoonseok Hwang , Yuting Qian , Junha Kang , Jehyun Lee , Dongchoon Ryu , Hong Chul Choi , Bohm-Jung Yang

"Topological Quantum Chemistry (TQC) links the chemical and symmetry structure of a given material with its topological properties. This field tabulates the data of the 10398 real-space atomic limits of materials, and solves the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-15 M. G. Vergniory , L. Elcoro , C. Felser , N. Regnault , B. A. Bernevig , Z. Wang

Topological crystalline insulators are topological insulators whose surface states are protected by the crystalline symmetry, instead of the time reversal symmetry. Similar to the first generation of three-dimensional topological insulators…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Jie Shen , Judy J. Cha