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Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave functions. This review presents a pedagogical account on…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Yoichi Ando

The topological mechanics is a perfect tool that can bridge the gap between the quantum and Newtonian physics and mechanics of materials. It requires discrete models of the material with analogies with the topological characteristics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohamed Shaat

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

The rich variety of crystalline symmetries in solids leads to a plethora of topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) featuring distinct physical properties, which are conventionally understood in terms of bulk invariants specialized to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Eslam Khalaf , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Haruki Watanabe

Topological materials present unconventional electronic properties that make them attractive for both basic science and next-generation technological applications. The majority of currently known topological materials have been discovered…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Andrew Ma , Yang Zhang , Thomas Christensen , Hoi Chun Po , Li Jing , Liang Fu , Marin Soljačić

Topological electronic flatten bands near or at the Fermi level are a promising avenue towards unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating states. However, the related experiments are mostly limited to the engineered…

Topological phases of matter$\unicode{x2013}$comprising both insulators and semimetals$\unicode{x2013}$offer great potential for quantum applications, but identifying new candidates remains challenging due to expensive first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-08 Xinyu Xu , Arif Ullah , Ming Yang

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 insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk band structure. Topological Dirac or Weyl semimetals show linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-21 Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

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

Quantum error correction (QEC) is crucial for realizing scalable quantum technologies, and topological quantum error correction (TQEC) has emerged as the most experimentally advanced paradigm of QEC. Existing homological and topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiang Zou , Hoi-Kwong Lo

One of the hallmarks of topological insulators is the correspondence between the value of its bulk topological invariant and the number of topologically protected edge modes observed in a finite-sized sample. This bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

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

The theory of symmetry indicators has enabled database searches for topological materials in normal conducting phases, which has led to several encyclopedic topological material databases. To date, such a database for topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-07 Feng Tang , Seishiro Ono , Xiangang Wan , Haruki Watanabe

The paradigm of classifying three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators into strong and weak ones (STI and WTI) opens the door for the discovery of various topological phases of matter protected by different symmetries and defined in…

The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently, identifying band topologies has become an important, but…

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…

We show that certain band gaps, which appear topologically trivial from the perspective of symmetry indicators (SIs), must instead be topological, as guaranteed by real-space information that follows from Topological Quantum Chemistry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Yoonseok Hwang , Vaibhav Gupta , Frank Schindler , Luis Elcoro , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Barry Bradlyn

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

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane