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We show that topological frequency band structures emerge in two-dimensional electromagnetic lattices of metamaterial components without the application of an external magnetic field. The topological nature of the band structure manifests…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Vassilios Yannopapas

A band gap for electronic states in crystals governs various properties of solids, such as transport, optical and magnetic properties. Its estimation and control have been an important issue in solid state physics. The band gap can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Shuichi Murakami , Motoaki Hirayama , Ryo Okugawa , Takashi Miyake

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted much attention due to their spin-polarized surface and edge states, whose origin in symmetry gives them intriguing quantum-mechanical properties. Robust control over the chemical potential of TI…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Andrew L. Yeats , Yu Pan , Anthony Richardella , Peter J. Mintun , Nitin Samarth , David D. Awschalom

The topological properties of the bulk band structure of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) manifest themselves in the form of metallic surface states. In this paper, we propose a probe which directly couples to an exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sthitadhi Roy , Kush Saha , Sourin Das

We describe recent progress in our understanding of the interplay between interactions, symmetry, and topology in states of quantum matter. We focus on a minimal generalization of the celebrated topological band insulators to interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 T. Senthil

Topological insulators are a class of band insulators with non-trivial topology, a result of band inversion due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. The transition between topological and normal insulator can be realized by tuning the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-29 Wenhan Zhang , M. X. Chen , Jixia Dai , Xueyun Wang , Zhicheng Zhong , Sang-Wook Cheong , Weida Wu

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

Topological photonic crystals have received considerable attention for their ability to manipulate and guide light in unique ways. They are typically designed by hand based on careful analysis of their bands and mode profiles, but recent…

We classify insulators by generalized symmetries that combine space-time transformations with quasimomentum translations. Our group-cohomological classification generalizes the nonsymmorphic space groups, which extend point groups by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 A. Alexandradinata , Zhijun Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig

Topological phases of matter are classified based on their Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose real-valued dispersions together with orthogonal eigenstates form nontrivial topology. In the recently discovered higher-order topological insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 He Gao , Haoran Xue , Zhongming Gu , Tuo Liu , Jie Zhu , Baile Zhang

The non-trivial topological features in the energy band of non-Hermitian systems provide promising pathways to achieve robust physical behaviors in classical or quantum open systems. A key topological feature, unique to non-Hermitian…

We demonstrate that higher-order electric susceptibilities in crystals can be enhanced and understood through nontrivial topological invariants and quantum geometry, using one-dimensional $\pi$-conjugated chains as representative model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager , Michele Pizzochero

The search for large band gap systems with dissipationless edge states is essential to developing materials that function under a wide range of temperatures. Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) have recently attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Lauryn Wu , Kunming Gu , Qiliang Li

Topological materials present unconventional electronic properties that make them attractive for both basic science and next-generation technological applications. The majority of currently known topological materials have been discovered…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Andrew Ma , Yang Zhang , Thomas Christensen , Hoi Chun Po , Li Jing , Liang Fu , Marin Soljačić

Intriguing physical property of materials stems from their chemical constituent whereas the connection between them is often not clear. Here, we uncover a general chemical classification for the two quantum phases in the honeycomb ABX…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-03 Xiuwen Zhang , Qihang Liu , Qiunan Xu , Xi Dai , Alex Zunger

Complex molecules and mesoscopic structures are naturally described by general networks of elementary building blocks and tight-binding is one of the simplest quantum model suitable for studying the physical properties arising from the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Buonsante , R. Burioni , D. Cassi

Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) are a perfectly tuned quantum-mechanical machinery in which counter-propagating and oppositely spin-polarized conduction channels balance each other on the surface of the material. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 A. I. Figueroa , T. Hesjedal , N. -J. Steinke

We proposed a framework for the topological classification of non-Hermitian systems. Different from previous $K$-theoretical approaches, our approach is a homotopy classification, which enables us to see more topological invariants.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Zhi Li , Roger S. K. Mong

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

The study of topological band insulators has revealed fascinating phases characterized by band topology indices and anomalous boundary modes protected by global symmetries. In strongly correlated systems, where the traditional notion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Xu , Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang