English
Related papers

Related papers: Why does bulk boundary correspondence fail in some…

200 papers

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which links a bulk topological property of a material to the existence of robust boundary states, is a hallmark of topological insulators. However, in crystalline topological materials the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Sasha S. Yamada , Tianhe Li , Mao Lin , Christopher W. Peterson , Taylor L. Hughes , Gaurav Bahl

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit extraordinary sensitivity to boundary conditions. Given that topological boundary modes and non-Hermitian skin effects can either coexist or individually appear in non-Hermitian systems, it is of great…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Xintong Zhang , Jing Li

The bulk-edge correspondence is a fundamental principle of topological wave physics, which states that the difference in gap Chern numbers between the interfaced materials is equal to the net number of topological edge modes. Although this…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-09 Samaneh Pakniyat , S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George W Hanson

The topology of insulators is usually revealed through the presence of gapless boundary modes: this is the so-called bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the many-body wavefunction of a crystalline insulator is endowed with additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Sander H. Kooi , Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

We present a Green's function formalism to investigate the topological properties of weakly interacting one-dimensional topological insulators, including the bulk-edge correspondence and the quantum criticality near topological phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Antonio Zegarra , Denis R. Candido , J. Carlos Egues , Wei Chen

We prove a general theorem on the relation between the bulk topological quantum number and the edge states in two dimensional insulators. It is shown that whenever there is a topological order in bulk, characterized by a non-vanishing Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Liang Qi , Yong-Shi Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess conducting edge states at their boundary while being insulating in the bulk. The detection of edge states remains an open question in ultracold atom setups. We propose a configuration to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Walter Hofstetter

We introduce two dimensional fermionic band models with two orbitals per lattice site, or one spinful orbital, and which have a non-zero topological Chern number that can be changed by varying the ratio of hopping parameters. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-14 Miguel A. N. Araújo , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro D. Sacramento

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a key concept in topological quantum materials. For instance, a quantum spin Hall insulator features a bulk insulating gap with gapless helical boundary states protected by the underlying Z2 topology.…

In this article, we propose a simple but general scaling relation between interactions in a gapped bulk topological matter and gapless interacting surface states. We explicitly illustrate such a generic bulk-boundary relation (BBR) for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-08 Saran Vijayan , Fei Zhou

Standard statistical mechanical or condensed matter arguments tell us that bulk properties of a physical system do not depend too much on boundary conditions. Random tilings of large regions provide counterexamples to such intuition, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jean-Marie Stéphan

We show here that numerous examples abound where changing topology does not necessarily close the bulk insulating charge gap as demanded in the standard non-interacting picture. From extensive determinantal and dynamical cluster quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-12 Peizhi Mai , Jinchao Zhao , Thomas A. Maier , Barry Bradlyn , Philip W. Phillips

Topological edge modes are excitations that are localized at the materials' edges and yet are characterized by a topological invariant defined in the bulk. Such bulk-edge correspondence has enabled the creation of robust electronic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Ananya Ghatak , Martin Brandenbourger , Jasper van Wezel , Corentin Coulais

The energy bands of non-Hermitian systems exhibit nontrivial topological features that arise from the complex nature of the energy spectrum. Under periodic boundary conditions (PBC), the energy spectrum describes rather generally closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

Bulk-boundary correspondence is the foundational principle of topological physics, first established in the quantum Hall effect, where a $D$-dimensional topologically nontrivial bulk gives rise to $(D-1)$-dimensional boundary states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Hau Tian Teo , Yang Long , Hong-yu Zou , Kailin Song , Haoran Xue , Yong Ge , Shou-qi Yuan , Hong-xiang Sun , Baile Zhang

Capital to topological insulators, the bulk-boundary correspondence ties a topological invariant computed from the bulk (extended) states with those at the boundary, which are hence robust to disorder. Here we put forward an ordering unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

The non-Hermitian skin effect is a phenomenon in which an extensive number of states accumulates at the boundaries of a system. It has been associated to nontrivial topology, with nonzero bulk invariants predicting its appearance and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Helene Spring , Viktor Könye , Anton R. Akhmerov , Ion Cosma Fulga

The dynamics of quantum field theories on bounded domains requires the introduction of boundary conditions on the quantum fields. We address the problem from a very general perspective by using charge conservation as a fundamental principle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-16 M. Asorey , D. Garcia-Alvarez , J. M. Munoz-Castaneda

Bulk-boundary correspondence serves as an important feature of the strong topological insulators, including Chern insulators and $Z_2$ topological insulators. Under nontrivial band topology, the protected gapless edge states correspond to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Yun-Chung Chen , Yu-Ping Lin , Ying-Jer Kao

We use the method of bulk-boundary correspondence of topological invariants to show that disordered topological insulators have at least one delocalized state at their boundary at zero energy. Those insulators which do not have chiral…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-08-06 A. Essin , V. Gurarie