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This course-based primer provides newcomers to the field with a concise introduction to some of the core topics in the emerging field of topological band insulators in one and two dimensions. The aim is to provide a basic understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 János K. Asbóth , László Oroszlány , András Pályi

In this study, we discuss a new type of bulk-boundary correspondence which holds for topological insulators and superconductors when the parity-time ($PT$) and/or parity-particle-hole ($PC$) symmetry are present. In these systems, even when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ryo Takahashi , Tomoki Ozawa

We study bulk-boundary correspondences and related surface phenomena stabilized by the second Chern number in three-dimensional insulators driven in adiabatic cycles. Magnetic fields and disorder effects are incorporated in our analysis…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-07 Bryan Leung , Emil Prodan

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

We use a "monodromy" argument to derive new expressions for the ${\bm Z}_2$ invariants of topological insulators with time-reversal symmetry in 2 and 3 dimensions. The derivations and the final expressions do not require any gauge choice…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-10 Emil Prodan

We investigate the role of self-adjoint extensions in the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators. While the correspondence is well understood in discrete models with spectral gaps, complications arise in the presence of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Johannes Kellendonk , Tom Stoiber

The existence of topologically protected edge modes is often cited as a highly desirable trait of topological insulators. However, these edge states are not always present. A realistic physical treatment of long range hopping in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Simon R. Pocock , Paloma A. Huidobro , Vincenzo Giannini

Topological insulators are noninteracting, gapped fermionic systems which have gapless boundary excitations. They are characterized by topological invariants, which can be written in many different ways, including in terms of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Andrew M. Essin , Victor Gurarie

Floquet topological insulators describe independent electrons on a lattice driven out of equilibrium by a time-periodic Hamiltonian, beyond the usual adiabatic approximation. In dimension two such systems are characterized by integer-valued…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Gian Michele Graf , Clément Tauber

Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

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

We analyze the topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant, which characterizes time reversal invariant topological insulators, in the framework of index theory and K-theory. The topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant counts the parity of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a generic feature of topological states of matter, reflecting the intrinsic relation between topological bulk and boundary states. For example, robust edge states propagate along the edges and corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao

We elucidate that the diffusive systems, which are widely found in nature, can be a new platform of the bulk-edge correspondence, a representative topological phenomenon. Using a discretized diffusion equation, we demonstrate the emergence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The bulk-edge correspondence is one of the most important ingredients in the theory of topological phases of matter. While the bulk-edge correspondence is applicable for Hermitian junction systems where two subsystems with independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Geonhwi Hwang , Hideaki Obuse

Bulk-edge correspondence, with quantized bulk topology leading to protected edge states, is a hallmark of topological states of matter and has been experimentally observed in electronic, atomic, photonic, and many other systems. While…

In this work, we establish the bulk-edge correspondence principle for finite two-dimensional photonic structures. Specifically, we focus on the divergence-form operator with periodic coefficients and prove the equality between the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Jiayu Qiu , Hai Zhang

The bulk-edge correspondence for topological quantum liquids states that the spectrum of the reduced density matrix of a large subregion reproduces the thermal spectrum of a physical edge. This correspondence suggests an intricate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 Brian Swingle , T. Senthil

Dislocations are ubiquitous in three-dimensional solid-state materials. The interplay of such real space topology with the emergent band topology defined in reciprocal space gives rise to gapless helical modes bound to the line defects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Liping Ye , Chunyin Qiu , Meng Xiao , Tianzi Li , Juan Du , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Second-order topological insulators are crystalline insulators with a gapped bulk and gapped crystalline boundaries, but topologically protected gapless states at the intersection of two boundaries. Without further spatial symmetries, five…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Josias Langbehn , Yang Peng , Luka Trifunovic , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer