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Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a quantum…

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Noninteracting insulating electronic states of matter can be classified according to their symmetries in terms of topological invariants which can be related to effective surface theories. These effective surface theories are in turn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bart de Leeuw , Carolin Küppersbusch , Vladimir Juricic , Lars Fritz

Topological matter in 3D is characterized by the presence of a topological BF term in its long-distance effective action. We show that, in 3D, there is another marginal term that must be added to the action in order to fully determine the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Cristina Diamantini , Pasquale Sodano , Carlo A. Trugenberger

Quasicrystals allow for symmetries that are impossible in crystalline materials, such as eight-fold rotational symmetry, enabling the existence of novel higher-order topological insulators in two dimensions without crystalline counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Yu-Feng Mao , Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Qi-Bo Zeng , Yong Xu

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

Topologically gapless edge states, characterized by topological invariants and Berry's phases of bulk energy bands, provide amazing techniques to robustly control the reflectionless propagation of electrons, photons and phonons. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Haiyan Fan , Baizhan Xia , Liang Tong , Shengjie Zheng , Dejie Yu

Topological insulators are crystalline materials that have revolutionized our ability to control wave transport. They provide us with unidirectional channels that are immune to obstacles, defects or local disorder, and can even survive some…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of a modified spinless Haldane-Hubbard model with broken threefold rotational symmetry, employing exact diagonalization calculations. The interplay of asymmetry, interactions, and topology gives…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-03 Tian-Cheng Yi , Hai-Qing Lin , Rubem Mondaini

Spin-orbit interactions are known to have drastic effects on the band structure of heavy-element-based materials. Celebrated examples are the recently identified 3D and 2D topological insulators. In those systems transport takes place at…

Nonlinear transport has emerged as a powerful approach to probe the quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions, such as Berry curvature and quantum metric, in topological materials. While nonlinear responses governed by bulk quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Deyi Zhuo , Xiaoda Liu , Huu-Thong Le , Annie G. Wang , Han Tay , Bomin Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Binghai Yan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

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

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 crystalline insulators are new states of matter in which the topological nature of electronic structures arises from crystal symmetries. Here we predict the first material realization of topological crystalline insulator in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-01 Timothy H. Hsieh , Hsin Lin , Junwei Liu , Wenhui Duan , Arun Bansil , Liang Fu

Topological insulators exhibit boundary states protected by bulk band topology, a principle first established in quantum systems and later extended to classical waves, including phononics. Conventionally, an $n$-dimensional bulk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Joel R. Pyfrom , Kai Sun , Jihong A. Ma

We show that lattices with higher-order topology can support corner-localized bound states in the continuum (BICs). We propose a method for the direct identification of BICs in condensed matter settings and use it to demonstrate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Alexander Cerjan

Recently, higher-order topological phases have endowed materials many exotic topological phases. For three-dimensional (3D) higher-order topologies, it hosts topologically protected 1D hinge states or 0D corner states, which extend the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Xiao Xiang , Xiang Ni , Feng Gao , Xiaoxiao Wu , Zhaoxian Chen , Yu-Gui Peng , Xue-Feng Zhu

We propose a new correlated topological state which we call a higher-order topological Mott insulator (HOTMI). This state exhibits a striking bulk-boundary correspondence due to electron correlations. Namely, the topological properties in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Koji Kudo , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Amorphous topological states, which are independent of the specific spatial distribution of microscopic constructions, have gained much attention. Recently, higher-order topological insulators, which are a new class of topological phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Hai-Ming Huang , Bin Zhou

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Topological phases of electronic systems often coexist in a material, well-known examples being systems which are both strong and weak topological insulators. More recently, a number of materials have been found to have the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jorge I. Facio , Sanjib Kumar Das , Yang Zhang , Klaus Koepernik , Jeroen van den Brink , Ion Cosma Fulga