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The concepts of topology have a profound impact on physics research spanning the fields of condensed matter, photonics and acoustics and predicting topological states that provide unprecedented versatility in routing and control of waves of…

Topological insulators (TIs) are an important family of quantum materials that exhibit a Dirac point (DP) in the surface band structure but have a finite band gap in bulk. A large degree of spin-orbit interaction and low bandgap is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 Thomas K. Reid , S. Pamir Alpay , Alexander V. Balatsky , Sanjeev K. Nayak

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) with a large bulk band-gap are promising for experimental studies of the quantum spin Hall effect and for spintronic device applications. Despite considerable theoretical efforts in…

Topological insulators have emerged as a major topic of condensed matter physics research with several novel applications proposed. Although there are now a number of established experimental examples of materials in this class, all of them…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-03 Joseph Maciejko , Gregory A. Fiete

Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and materials science. Since there is a direct connection between real space,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-23 Nitesh Kumar , Satya N. Guin , Kaustuv Manna , Chandra Shekhar , Claudia Felser

Conventional topological insulators and superconductors have topologically protected nodal points on their boundaries, and the recent interests in nodal-line semimetals only concerned bulk band structures. Here, we present a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-21 L. B. Shao , Y. X. Zhao

The aim of this series of two papers is to discuss topological invariants for interacting topological insulators (TIs). In the first paper (I), we provide a paradigm of efficient numerical evaluation scheme for topological invariants, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-08 Yuan-Yao He , Han-Qing Wu , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

Topological insulators (TIs) present a neoteric class of materials, which support delocalised, conducting surface states despite an insulating bulk. Due to their intriguing electronic properties, their optical properties have received…

Exploring novel topological matters with exotic quantum states has always been a core issue in the field of condensed matter physics, which can update the understanding of topological phases and broaden the classification of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Wei Jia , Yuping Tian , Huanhuan Yang , Xiangru Kong , Zhi-Hao Huang , Wei-Jiang Gong , Jun-Hong An

A concrete strategy is presented for generating strong topological insulators in $d+d'$ dimensions which have quantized physics in $d$ dimensions. Here, $d$ counts the physical and $d'$ the virtual dimensions. It consists of seeking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 Emil Prodan

Fundamental topological phenomena in condensed matter physics are associated with a quantized electromagnetic response in units of fundamental constants. Recently, it has been predicted theoretically that the time-reversal invariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-26 Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , H. Dennis Drew , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological insulators are bulk insulators with exotic surface states, protected under time-reversal symmetry, that hold promise in observing many exciting condensed-matter phenomena. In this report, we show that by having a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 S. Mathimalar , S. Sasmal , P. Rajasekhar , A. Bhardwaj , S. Chaudhary , B. Satpati , K. V. Raman

In this Letter we supervisedly train neural networks to distinguish different topological phases in the context of topological band insulators. After training with Hamiltonians of one-dimensional insulators with chiral symmetry, the neural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter with surface states protected by the time-reversal symmetry. In this work, we perform first-principle electronic structure calculations for $Sb_2Te_3$, $Sb_2Se_3$, $Bi_2Te_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Haijun Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) hold promise for applications in spintronics based on the fact that the propagation direction of edge electrons of a 2D TI is robustly linked to their spin origination. Here, with the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine

Quantum spin Hall insulators, or synonymously known as 2D topological insulators, are crucial 2D systems hosting topologically protected edge states. The working temperature of this topological quantum phase is dictated by the inverted…

Introducing, observing, and manipulating individual impurities coupled to a host material offers the opportunity to create new device concepts based on single spin and charge states. Because of potential applications in spintronics and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Paolo Sessi , Thomas Bathon , Konstantin A. Kokh , Oleg E. Tereshchenko , Matthias Bode

Topological insulators and giant spin-orbit toque switching of nanomagnets are one of the frontier topics for the development of energy-efficient spintronic devices. Spin-circuit representations involving different materials and phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Kuntal Roy

Two-dimensional (2D) topological electronic insulators are known to give rise to gapless edge modes, which underlie low energy dynamics, including electrical and thermal transport. This has been thoroughly investigated in the context of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Udit Khanna , Yuval Gefen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Discovery of novel topological orders of condensed matters is of a significant interest in both fundamental and applied physics due to the associated quantum conductance behaviors and unique symmetry-protected backscattering-immune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cheng He , Xu Ni , Hao Ge , Xiao-Chen Sun , Yan-Bin Chen , Ming-Hui Lu , Xiao-Ping Liu , Liang Feng , Yan-Feng Chen