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We investigate a square-lattice architecture of superconducting transmon qubits with inter-qubit interactions mediated by inductive couplers. Therein, the inductive couling between the qubit and couplers is suggested to be designed into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Yan-Jun Zhao , Yu-Qi Wang , Yang Xue , Xun-Wei Xu , Yan-Yang Zhang , Wu-Ming Liu , Yu-xi Liu

Semimetals, in which conduction and valence bands touch but do not form Fermi surfaces, have attracted considerable interest for their anomalous properties starting with the discovery of Dirac matter in graphene and other two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-11 Dennis Wawrzik , David Lindner , Maria Hermanns , Simon Trebst

We elaborate the first theoretical realization of two dimensional itinerant topological magnons, based on the quarter filled Haldane-Hubbard model with a nearly-flat electron band. By using the exact diagonalization method with a projection…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Zhao-Long Gu , Zhao-Yang Dong , Shun-Li Yu , Jian-Xin Li

Flat band materials such as the kagome metals or moir\'e superlattice systems are of intense current interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and usually exhibit topological properties. Their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Joseph G. Checkelsky , B. Andrei Bernevig , Piers Coleman , Qimiao Si , Silke Paschen

Novel fermionic quasiparticles with integer pseudospins in some energy bands, such as pseudospin-1 triple-point fermions, recently attract increasing interest since they are beyond the conventional spin-$1/2$ Dirac and Weyl counterparts. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-27 Xue-Ying Mai , Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhi Li , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Topological magnetism has sparked an unprecedented age in quantum technologies. Marked by twisted spin structures with exotic dynamical modes, topological magnets have motivated a new generation of spintronic devices which transcend the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 M. E. Henderson , D. G. Cory , D. Sarenac , D. A. Pushin

One of the most significant breakthroughs in physics of the last decade has been the discovery that materials with non-trivial topological properties for electronic, electromagnetic, acoustic and mechanical responses can be designed and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-21 Xiang Ni , Simon Yves , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alu

Topological materials hosting multifold fermions and bosons have emerged as a rich platform for exploring unconventional quasiparticles and transport phenomena. In this work, we investigate the chiral crystal SiTc using first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Nagarjuna Patra , Ajit Singh Jhala , Poorva Singh

Topological semimetals with different types of band crossings provide a rich platform to realize novel fermionic excitations, known as topological fermions. In particular, some fermionic excitations can be direct analogues of elementary…

Topological semimetals exhibit band crossings near the Fermi energy, which are protected by the nontrivial topological character of the wave functions. In many cases, these topological band degeneracies give rise to exotic surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jonathan Zhang , Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Maia G. Vergniory , Leslie M. Schoop , Andreas P. Schnyder

Magnetic skyrmions, topological solitons characterized by a two-dimensional swirling spin texture, have recently attracted attention as stable particle-like objects. In a three-dimensional system, a skyrmion can extend in the third…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 S. Seki , M. Garst , J. Waizner , R. Takagi , Y. Okamura , K. Kondou , F. Kagawa , Y. Otani , Y. Tokura

Equilibrium properties and localised magnon excitations are investigated in topologically distinct skyrmionic textures. The observed shape of the structures and their orientation on the lattice is explained based on their vorticities and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Levente Rózsa , Markus Weißenhofer , Ulrich Nowak

Topologically nontrivial states are common in symmetry broken phases at macroscopic scales. Low dimensional systems bring them to a microscopic level where solitons emerge as single particles. The earliest and latest applications are…

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The natural existence of crystalline symmetry in real materials manifests the importance of understanding crystalline symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, especially for interacting systems. In this paper, we systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Jian-Hao Zhang , Shang-Qiang Ning , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

The link between crystal and electronic structure is crucial for understanding structure-property relations in solid-state chemistry. In particular, it has been instrumental in understanding topological materials, where electrons behave…

There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals, and topological defects that represent immutable…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Zhi-Kang Lin , Qiang Wang , Yang Liu , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong , Jian-Hua Jiang

The discovery of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators more than a decade ago has revolutionized modern condensed matter physics. Today, the field of topological states of matter is one of the most active and fruitful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Stephan Rachel

We investigate the interaction-driven instability of a quadratic band crossing arising for ultracold bosonic atoms loaded into a two-dimensional optical lattice. We consider the case when the degenerate point becomes a local minimum of both…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-21 Guang-Quan Luo , Andreas Hemmerich , Zhi-Fang Xu

The spin ice compound Dy_2Ti_2O_7 stands out as the first topological magnet in three dimensions, with its tell-tale emergent fractionalized magnetic monopole excitations. Its real-time dynamical properties have been an enigma from the very…

We study the spin waves of the triangular skyrmion crystal that emerges in a two dimensional spin lattice model as a result of the competition between Heisenberg exchange, Dzyalonshinkii-Moriya interactions, Zeeman coupling and uniaxial…

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