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Bulk-boundary correspondence guarantees the presence of robust, anomalous states on the boundary of topological matter. The edges of a two-dimensional Chern insulator harbor one-dimensional chiral states, which have a conductance $n\,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Oskar Schweizer , Virginia Gali , Adam Y. Chaou , Gal Lemut , Piet W. Brouwer , Maxim Breitkreiz

The search for strong topological phases in generic aperiodic materials and meta-materials is now vigorously pursued by the condensed matter physics community. In this work, we first introduce the concept of patterned resonators as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Chris Bourne , Emil Prodan

Electromagnetic topological edge states typically are created in photonic systems with crystalline symmetry and these states emerge because of the topological feature of bulk Bloch bands in momentum space according to the bulk-edge…

In this letter we show how the topological number of a static Hamiltonian can be measured from a dynamical quench process. We focus on a two-band Chern insulator in two-dimension, for instance, the Haldane model, whose dynamical process can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-10 Ce Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinlong Yu , Hui Zhai

A quantum quench is a nonequilibrium dynamics governed by the unitary evolution. We propose a two-band model whose quench dynamics is characterized by an arbitrary Hopf number belonging to the homotopy group $\pi _{3}(S^{2})=\mathbb{Z}$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Motohiko Ezawa

The topology of two-dimensional materials traditionally manifests itself through the quantization of the Hall conductance, which is revealed in transport measurements. Recently, it was predicted that topology can also give rise to a…

We study the topological characterization of the energy gaps in general two-dimensional quasiperiodic systems consisting of multiple periodicities, represented by twisted two-dimensional materials. We show that every single gap is uniquely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Mikito Koshino , Hiroki Oka

We explore theoretically how the topological properties of 2D materials can be manipulated by cavity quantum electromagnetic fields for both resonant and off-resonant electron-photon coupling, with a focus on van der Waals moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Danh-Phuong Nguyen , Geva Arwas , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao , Cristiano Ciuti

Topological states of matter, as quantum Hall systems or topological insulators, cannot be distinguished from ordinary matter by local measurements in the bulk of the material. Instead, global measurements are required, revealing…

We report on the topological pumping of quadratic optical solitons, observed through their quantized transport in a dynamic optical potential. A distinctive feature of this system is that the two fields with different frequencies, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye , Vladimir V. Konotop

We explore the critical properties of a topological transition in a two-dimensional, amorphous lattice with randomly distributed points. The model intrinsically breaks the time-reversal symmetry without an external magnetic field, akin to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Soumya Bera , Johannes Dieplinger , Naba P Nayak

We provide a universal tight bound on the energy gap of topological insulators by exploring relationships between topology, quantum geometry, and optical absorption. Applications of our theory to infrared absorption near topological band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Yugo Onishi , Liang Fu

Berry curvature that describes local geometrical properties of energy bands can elucidate many fascinating phenomena in solid-state, photonic, and phononic systems, given its connection to global topological invariants such as the Chern…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xuefan Yin , Ye Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixuan Zhang , Susumu Noda , Chao Peng

In this paper, we stress the importance of momentum-space geometry in the understanding of two-dimensional topological phases of matter. We focus, for simplicity, on the gapped boundary of three-dimensional topological insulators in class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Giandomenico Palumbo

We study Chern numbers to characterize the ground state of strongly interacting systems on a lattice. This method allows us to perform a numerical characterization of bosonic fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on a lattice where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Mohammad Hafezi , Anders S. Sorensen , Mikhail D. Lukin , Eugene Demler

An interesting route to the realization of topological Chern bands in ultracold atomic gases is through the use of optical flux lattices. These models differ from the tight-binding real-space lattice models of Chern insulators that are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Sterdyniak , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nigel R. Cooper , N. Regnault

A scenario of non-Hermitian bulk--boundary correspondence proposed for one-dimensional topological insulators is adapted to a non-Hermitian Chern insulator to examine its applicability to two-dimensional systems. This scenario employs bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Yositake Takane

We establish the theory of critical transport in amorphous Chern insulators and show that it lies beyond the current paradigm of topological criticality epitomized by the quantum Hall transitions. We consider models of Chern insulators on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Moein N. Ivaki , Isac Sahlberg , Teemu Ojanen

Direct measurement of a bulk topological observable in topological phase of matter has been a long-standing issue. Recently, detection of bulk topology through quench dynamics has attracted growing interests. Here, we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yoshihito Kuno , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The induced Chern-Simons term for a paired electron state is calculated in the quantum Hall system by using a field theory on the von Neumann lattice. The coefficient of the Chern-Simons term, which is the Hall conductance, has not only the…

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