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Topological superconductors are exotic phases of matter featuring robust surface states that could be leveraged for topological quantum computation. A useful guiding principle for the search of topological superconductors is to relate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-05 Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po , Haruki Watanabe

One of the most significant breakthroughs in physics of the last decade has been the discovery that materials with non-trivial topological properties for electronic, electromagnetic, acoustic and mechanical responses can be designed and…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-21 Xiang Ni , Simon Yves , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alu

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Though symmetry-based indicators formulae are powerful in diagnosing topological states with a gapped band structure at/between any high-symmetry points, it fails in diagnosing topological degeneracies when the compatibility condition is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-15 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami

Magnetic topological semimetals (TSMs) are topological quantum materials with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and isolated nodal points or lines near the Fermi level. Their topological properties would typically reveal from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-08 Jinyu Zou , Zhuoran He , Gang Xu

2D topological insulators promise novel approaches towards electronic, spintronic, and quantum device applications. This is owing to unique features of their electronic band structure, in which bulk-boundary correspondences enforces the…

Topological materials with unconventional electronic properties have been investigated intensively for both fundamental and practical interests. Thousands of topological materials have been identified by symmetry-based analysis and ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-26 Haosheng Xu , Yadong Jiang , Huan Wang , Jing Wang

Recent years have seen multiple high-throughput studies reveal an immense number of topological materials through use of symmetry indicators. Despite this success, three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) admitting a band-gap larger…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-13 Alexander C. Tyner , Pallab Goswami

Conventional metals, insulators, and semimetals are constrained by fundamental limitations in terms of their thermoelectric performance. Topological materials offer certain features that allow them to circumvent these constraints, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Brian Skinner , Poulomi Chakraborty , Joshua Scales , Joseph P. Heremans

Following over a decade of intense efforts to enable major progress in spintronics devices and quantum information technology by means of materials in which the electronic structure exhibits non-trivial topological properties, three key…

The discovery of topological semimetals with multifold band crossings has opened up a new and exciting frontier in the field of topological physics. These materials exhibit large Chern numbers, leading to long double Fermi arcs on their…

Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest additions to the field, the material class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-01 Leslie Schoop , Florian Pielnhofer , Bettina Lotsch

We conducted a high-throughput search for topological magnetic materials on 522 new, experimentally reported commensurate magnetic structures from MAGNDATA, doubling the number of available materials on the Topological Magnetic Materials…

Topological materials in crystal solids, including topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), topological Dirac semimetals (DSMs), topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs), topological Dirac or Weyl nodal line…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-05 Xing-Qiu Chen

Topological metals (TMs) are a kind of special metallic materials, which feature nontrivial band crossings near the Fermi energy, giving rise to peculiar quasiparticle excitations. TMs can be classified based on the characteristics of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-30 Si Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Magnetic topological insulators and semi-metals have a variety of properties that make them attractive for applications including spintronics and quantum computation, but very few high-quality candidate materials are known. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Kamal Choudhary , Kevin F. Garrity , Nirmal J. Ghimire , Naween Anand , Francesca Tavazza

The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

Phonons play a crucial role in many properties of solid state systems, such as thermal and electrical conductivity, neutron scattering and associated effects or superconductivity. Hence, it is expected that topological phonons will also…

Topological materials--including insulators (TIs) and semimetals (TSMs)--hold immense promise for quantum technologies, yet their discovery remains constrained by the high computational cost of first-principles calculations and the slow,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Arif Ullah , Rajibul Islam , Ghulam Hussain , Zahir Muhammad , Xiaoguang Li , Ming Yang