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A peculiar feature of the majority of three dimensional topological insulator surface states studied experimentally thus far, namely their particle-hole asymmetry, makes quantum oscillations (Shubnikov de Haas and de Haas van Alphen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Anthony R. Wright

The high-Chern number phases with a Chern number C>1 have been observed in a recent experiment that performed on the topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures, consisting of the alternating magnetic-doped and undoped TI layers. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

Topological materials are often characterized by unique edge states which are in turn used to detect different topological phases in experiments. Recently, with the discovery of various higher-order topological insulators, such spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ze-Lin Kong , Zhi-Kang Lin , Jian-Hua Jiang

Crystalline symmetry can be used to predict bulk and surface properties of topological phases. For non-interacting cases, symmetry-eigenvalue analysis of Bloch states at high symmetry points in the Brillouin zone simplifies the calculation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Saavanth Velury , Yoonseok Hwang , Taylor L. Hughes

Strong directional disorder in local magnetic moments coupled to a Chern insulator gives rise to topological phases that cannot be continuously connected to the clean limit and are therefore genuinely disorder-driven. We demonstrate this in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Devesh Vaish , Michael Potthoff

The field of topological photonics studies unique and robust photonic systems that are immune to defects and disorders due to the protection of their underlying topological phases. Mostly implemented in static systems, the studied…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-20 Jicheng Jin , Li He , Jian Lu , Lin Chang , Chen Shang , John E. Bowers , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

In this paper we explore the effects of quasiperiodicity in paradigmatic models of Chern insulators. We identify a plethora of topological phase transitions and characterize them based on spectral and localization properties. Contrary to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-16 Tiago S. Gonçalves , Miguel Gonçalves , Pedro Ribeiro , Bruno Amorim

Topological quantum state described by the global invariant has been extensively studied in theory and experiment. In this letter, we investigate the relationship between \emph{Zitterbewegung} and the topology of systems that reflect the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Xin Shen , Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhi Li

The Chern index characterizes the topological phases of nonreciprocal photonic systems. Unlike in electronic systems, the photonic Chern number has no clear physical meaning, except that it determines the net number of unidirectional edge…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-06 Mário G. Silveirinha

Topological states of matter emergent as a new type of quantum phases, which can be distinguished by their associated topological invariants, e.g., Chern numbers. Currently, there is increasing in-terests toward the physically detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Jian Xu

Fascination in topological materials originates from their remarkable response properties and exotic quasiparticles which can be utilized in quantum technologies. In particular, large-scale efforts are currently focused on realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Paul Baireuther , Marcin Płodzień , Teemu Ojanen , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart

We propose a topological order parameter for interacting topological insulators, expressed in terms of the full Green's functions of the interacting system. We show that it is exactly quantized for a time reversal invariant topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study chiral models in one spatial dimension, both static and periodically driven. We demonstrate that their topological properties may be read out through the long time limit of a bulk observable, the mean chiral displacement. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-02 Maria Maffei , Alexandre Dauphin , Filippo Cardano , Maciej Lewenstein , Pietro Massignan

Interaction-induced topological systems have attracted a growing interest for their exotic properties going beyond the single-particle picture of topological insulators. In particular, the interplay between strong correlations and finite…

A central property of (Chern) topological insulators is the presence of robust asymmetric transport along interfaces separating two-dimensional insulating materials in different topological phases. A Topological Anderson Insulator is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Guillaume Bal , Thuyen Dang

A common feature of topological insulators is that they are characterized by topologically invariant quantity such as the Chern number and the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ index. This quantity distinguishes a nontrivial topological system from a trivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-24 S. A. Owerre

Here we study the instabilities of a quadratic band crossing system to Chern insulating states and uncorrelated disorder. We determined the phase diagram in the plane of topological mass versus disorder strength, characterizing the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-19 Nicolau Sobrosa , Miguel Gonçalves , Eduardo V. Castro

Topological invariants, including the Chern numbers, can topologically classify parameterized Hamiltonians. We find that topological invariants can be properly defined and calculated even if the parameter space is discrete, which is done by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Youjiang Xu , Walter Hofstetter

Topological invariants play a key role in the characterization of topological states. Due to the existence of exceptional points, it is a great challenge to detect topological invariants in non-Hermitian systems. We put forward a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Bo Zhu , Yongguan Ke , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

One of the most important practical hallmarks of topological matter is the presence of topologically protected, exponentially localised edge states at interfaces of regions characterised by unequal topological invariants. Here, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Suraj S. Hegde , Toni Ehmcke , Tobias Meng