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Topological materials are quantum materials with nontrivial ground-state entanglement that are irremovable so long as certain rules, like invariance under symmetries and the existence of an energy gap, are respected. They showcase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Hoi Chun Po

Topological semimetals in crystals with a chiral structure (which possess a handedness due to a lack of mirror and inversion symmetries) are expected to display numerous exotic physical phenomena, including fermionic excitations with large…

The search for exotic new topological states of matter in widely accessible materials, for which the manufacturing process is mastered, is one of the major challenges of the current topological physics. Here we predict higher order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Sergey S. Krishtopenko

Graphene is a two-dimensional Dirac semimetal showing interesting properties as a result of its dispersion relation with both quasiparticles and quasiholes or matter and anti-matter. We introduce a topological nodal ring semimetal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Karyn Le Hur , Sariah Al Saati

In crystalline systems with a superstructure, the electron dispersion can form a nontrivial covering of the Brillouin zone. It is proved that the number of sheets in this covering and its monodromy are topological invariants under ambient…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-30 Yu. B. Kudasov

Chiral crystals are materials whose lattice structure has a well-defined handedness due to the lack of inversion, mirror, or other roto-inversion symmetries. These crystals represent a broad, important class of quantum materials; their…

In chiral crystals crystalline symmetries can protect multifold fermions, pseudo-relativistic masless quasiparticles that have no high-energy counterparts. Their realization in transition metal monosilicides has exemplified their intriguing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Selma Franca , Adolfo G. Grushin

Topological physics and strong electron-electron correlations in quantum materials are typically studied independently. However, there have been rapid recent developments in quantum materials in which topological phase transitions emerge…

Topological electronic materials are new quantum states of matter hosting novel linear responses in the bulk and anomalous gapless states at the boundary, and are for scientific and applied reasons under intensive research in physics and in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Tiantian Zhang , Yi Jiang , Zhida Song , He Huang , Yuqing He , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Chen Fang

Two distinct structures of aggregates of atoms connected by anisotropic bonds with a network configuration are discussed from the viewpoint of a point set topology. A specific topological space connects the two types of topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Shousuke Ohmori , Tomoyuki Yamamoto , Akihiko Kitada

There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals, and topological defects that represent immutable…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Zhi-Kang Lin , Qiang Wang , Yang Liu , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong , Jian-Hua Jiang

Topological electronic phases exist in a variety of naturally occurring materials but can also be created artificially. We used a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope to create dimerized chains of identical quantum dots on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Van Dong Pham , Yi Pan , Steven C. Erwin , Felix von Oppen , Kiyoshi Kanisawa , Stefan Fölsch

Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles appear in metals, where band degeneracies occur at the Fermi level, dictated by the band structure topology. While in some metals these quasiparticles are direct analogues of elementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Ziming Zhu , Georg W. Winkler , QuanSheng Wu , Ju Li , Alexey A. Soluyanov

Recent discoveries have spurred the theoretical prediction and experimental realization of novel materials that have topological properties arising from band inversion. Such topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 M. Kotulla , U. Zülicke

Topology establishes a unifying framework for a diverse range of scientific areas including particle physics, cosmology, and condensed matter physics. One of the most fascinating manifestations of topology in the context of condensed matter…

Topology is being widely adopted to understand and to categorize quantum matter in modern physics. The nexus of topology orders, which engenders distinct quantum phases with benefits to both fundamental research and practical applications…

In this article, we provide an overview of the basic concepts of novel topological materials. This new class of materials developed by combining the Weyl/Dirac fermionic electron states and magnetism, provide a materials-science platform to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Vishal Bhardwaj , Ratnamala Chatterjee

The discovery of topological insulators has reformed modern materials science, promising to be a platform for tabletop relativistic physics, electronic transport without scattering, and stable quantum computation. Topological invariants are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Jorrit Kruthoff , Jan de Boer , Jasper van Wezel

We report the discovery of topological magnetism in the candidate magnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlGe. Using neutron scattering we find this system to host several incommensurate, square-coordinated multi-$\vec{k}$ magnetic phases below…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-22 P. Puphal , V. Pomjakushin , N. Kanazawa , V. Ukleev , D. J. Gawryluk , J. Ma , M. Naamneh , N. C. Plumb , L. Keller , R. Cubitt , E. Pomjakushina , J. S. White

Nodal chain is a typical topological phase in nodal line semimetals. Here, we propose a new topological phase -- interlocking nodal chains, in which two sets of nodal chains are interlocked each other. It includes one- (1D), two- (2D) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Zhiwei Li , Yuee Xie1 , Po-Yao Chang , Yuanping Chen