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Moir{\'e} superlattice realized in two-dimensional heterostructures offers an exciting platform to access strongly-correlated electronic states. In this work, we study transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) Moir{\'e} superlattices with…

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The pumping conductance of a disordered two-dimensional Chern insulator scales with increasing size and fixed disorder strength to sharp plateau transitions at well-defined energies between ordinary and quantum Hall insulators. When the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Jan Dahlhaus , Roni Ilan , Daniel Freed , Michael Freedman , Joel E. Moore

This paper begins with a summary of a powerful formalism for the study of electronic states in condensed matter physics called "Gauge Theory of States/Phases of Matter." The chiral anomaly, which plays quite a prominent role in that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-12 Jürg Fröhlich

Topological insulators are materials with a bulk excitation gap generated by the spin orbit interaction, and which are different from conventional insulators. This distinction is characterized by Z_2 topological invariants, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Starting with a description of the motivation underlying the analysis presented in this paper and a brief survey of the chiral anomaly, I proceed to review some basic elements of the theory of the quantum Hall effect in 2D incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juerg Froehlich

Chern-Simons (CS) invariant is a fundamental topological invariant describing the topological invariance of 3D space based on the Chern-Simons field theory. To date, direct measurement of the CS invariant in a physical system remains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-09 Chang-Rui Yi , Jinlong Yu , Huan Yuan , Xin Chen , Jia-Yu Guo , Jinyi Zhang , Shuai Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

We discuss methods for calculating Chern numbers of two-dimensional lattice systems using spiral boundary conditions, which sweep all lattice sites in one-dimensional order. Specifically, we establish the one-dimensional representation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-24 Masaaki Nakamura , Shohei Masuda

Topological insulator(TI) is a phase of matter discovered recently. Kane and Mele proposed this phase is distinguished from the ordinary band insulator by a Z2 topological invariant.2 Several authors have try to related this Z2 invariant to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-01 Yidong Wu

Local topological markers are effective tools for determining the topological properties of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous systems. The Chern marker is an established topological marker that has previously been shown to effectively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-14 Joseph Sykes , Ryan Barnett

Topological insulators are a broad class of unconventional materials that are insulating in the interior but conduct along the edges. This edge transport is topologically protected and dissipationless. Until recently, all existing…

Multi-terminal topological devices are a new generation of electronic devices with quantized properties robust against imperfections. In magnetic topological insulators, dissipationless edge states give functional devices in zero magnetic…

Topological insulating states in two-dimensional (2D) materials are ideal systems to study different types of quantized response signals due to their in gap metallic states. Very recently, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect was discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Junwen Lai , Xiangyang Liu , Jie Zhan , Tianye Yu , Peitao Liu , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

The Chern vector is a vectorial generalization of the scalar Chern number, being able to characterize the topological phase of three-dimensional (3D) Chern insulators. Such a vectorial generalization extends the applicability of Chern-type…

We consider topological insulators and superconductors with discrete symmetries and clarify the relevant index theory behind the periodic table proposed by Kitaev. An effective Hamiltonian determines the analytical index, which can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Dan Li

The real Chern insulator state, featuring nontrivial real Chern number and second-order boundary modes, has been revealed in a few two-dimensional systems. The concept can be extended to three dimensions (3D), but a proper material…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-28 Xu-Tao Zeng , Bin-Bin Liu , Fan Yang , Zeying Zhang , Y. X. Zhao , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

A quantum anomalous Hall state with high Chern number has so far been realized in multiplayer structures consisting of alternating magnetic and undoped topological insulator layers. However, in previous proposals, the Chern number can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Yuriko Baba , Mario Amado , Enrique Diez , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Rafael A. Molina

Topological band theory establishes a standardized framework for classifying different types of topological matters. Recent investigations have shown that hyperbolic lattices in non-Euclidean space can also be characterized by hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Weixuan Zhang , Fengxiao Di , Xingen Zheng , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We calculate a topological invariant, whose value would coincide with the Chern number in case of integer quantum Hall effect, for fractional quantum Hall states. In case of Abelian fractional quantum Hall states, this invariant is shown to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-09 Victor Gurarie , Andrew M. Essin

Protected by the chiral symmetry, three dimensional chiral topological insulators are characterized by an integer-valued topological invariant. How this invariant could emerge in physical observables is an important question. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Sheng-Tao Wang , Dong-Ling Deng , Joel E. Moore , Kai Sun , Lu-Ming Duan

We show that topological phases of the Dirac system in arbitral even dimensional space are simulated by $LC$ electric circuits with operational amplifiers. The lattice Hamiltonian for the hypercubic lattice in $2n$ dimensional space is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Motohiko Ezawa