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We derive a model of localized edge states in the finite width strip for two-dimensional electron gas formed in the hybrid system of bismuth monolayer deposited on the silicon interface and described by the nearly-free electron model with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 D. V. Khomitsky , A. A. Chubanov

We show strong effects of a weak and smooth, on the magnetic length, superlattice potential upon edge magnetoplasmons (EMPs) at the armchair edge, with a smooth steplike electrostatic lateral confining potential, of a wide graphene channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 O. G. Balev , A. C. A. Ramos , H. O. Frota

Topological edge states in systems of two (or more) dimensions offer scattering-free transport, exhibiting robustness to inhomogeneities and disorder. In a different domain, time-modulated systems, such as photonic time crystals (PTCs),…

We demonstrate that a bianisotropic response associated with a broken mirror symmetry of a dielectric resonator allows opening a band gap in simple square lattice arrays of such resonators. Realizing the proposed system as an array of…

Topological insulators are a new class of materials which have gapped spectra in the bulk, but are accompanied by topologically protected gapless excitations at the surface (edge) of the system. These phenomena have a close relationship…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Taro Kimura

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 develop a theory that describes the response of non-reciprocal devices employing 2-dimensional materials in the quantum Hall regime capacitively coupled to external electrodes. As the conduction in these devices is understood to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Stefano Bosco , David Peter DiVincenzo

We report a plasmon-polaron mode of a 2D electron gas occupying surface states of a 3D topological crystal. This new, low-frequency, acoustic plasmon mode splits-off from the conventional spin-plasmon mode as a result of strong interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Alex Shvonski , Krzysztof Kempa

The phase of the quantum-mechanical wave function can encode a topological structure with wide-ranging physical consequences, such as anomalous transport effects and the existence of edge states robust against perturbations. While this has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-14 M. dos Santos Dias , N. Biniskos , F. J. dos Santos , K. Schmalzl , J. Persson , F. Bourdarot , N. Marzari , S. Blügel , T. Brückel , S. Lounis

Topological insulators are unique devices supporting unidirectional edge states at their interfaces. Due to topological protection, such edge states persist in the presence of disorder and do not experience backscattering upon interaction…

We introduce a novel class of interaction-enabled topological crystalline insulators in two- and three-dimensional electronic systems, which we call "topological crystalline magnet." It is protected by the product of the time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Haruki Watanabe , Liang Fu

In this Letter, it is shown that interactions can facilitate the emergence of topological edge states of quantum-degenerate bosonic systems in the presence of a harmonic potential. This effect is demonstrated with the concrete model of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-05 Bogdan Galilo , Derek K. K. Lee , Ryan Barnett

Bound electron pairs (BEPs) with energy in the band gap are interesting because they can participate in charge and spin transport in modern topologically nontrivial materials. We address the problem of their stability and study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Bagun S. Shchamkhalova

In the ferromagnetic insulator with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, we theoretically predict and numerically verify a topological magnon insulator, where the charge-free magnon is topologically protected to transport along the edge while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Lifa Zhang , Jie Ren , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

Topological magnons are emergent quantum spin excitations featured by magnon bands crossing linearly at the points dubbed nodes, analogous to fermions in topological electronic systems. Experimental realization of topological magnons in…

To efficiently integrate cutting-edge terahertz technology into compact devices, the highly confined terahertz plasmons are attracting intensive attentions. Compared to plasmons at visible frequencies in metals, terahertz plasmons,…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jianfeng Wang , Xuelei Sui , Wenhui Duan , Feng Liu , Bing Huang

Recent experiments have established a type of nonsymmorphic symmetry protected nodal lines in the family of two-dimensional (2D) composition tunable materials NbSi$_x$Te$_2$. Here, we theoretically study the plasmonic properties of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Jin Cao , Hao-Ran Chang , Xiaolong Feng , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Band structures of electrons in a periodic potential are well-known to host topologies that impact their behaviors at edges and interfaces. The concept however is more general than the single-electron setting. In this work, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Luis Brey , H. A. Fertig

Topological insulators are characterized by the presence of gapless surface modes protected by time-reversal symmetry. In three space dimensions the magnetoelectric response is described in terms of a bulk theta term for the electromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Brian Swingle , Maissam Barkeshli , John McGreevy , T. Senthil

We present the microscopic treatment of edge magnetoplasmons (EMPs) for the regime of not-too-low temperatures defined by the condition $\hbar \omega_{c}\gg k_{B}T\gg \hbar v_{g}/2\ell_{0}$, where $v_{g}$ is the group velocity of the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Sanderson Silva , Oleg G. Balev