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Topological phases are characterised by a topological invariant that remains unchanged by deformations in the Hamiltonian. Materials exhibiting topological phases include topological insulators, superconductors exhibiting strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Dimitrie Culcer , Attila Geresdi

The topology of an object describes global properties that are insensitive to local perturbations. Classic examples include string knots and the genus (number of handles) of a surface: no manipulation of a closed string short of cutting it…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-15 Nathan Schine , Michelle Chalupnik , Tankut Can , Andrey Gromov , Jonathan Simon

We consider topological Markov chains (also called Markov shifts) on countable graphs. We show that a transient graph can be extended to a recurrent graph of equal entropy which is either positive recurrent of null recurrent, and we give an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Sylvie Ruette

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a generic feature of topological states of matter, reflecting the intrinsic relation between topological bulk and boundary states. For example, robust edge states propagate along the edges and corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Hong Yao

In this paper we discuss the principles of measuring topological charge or representation traveling in the set of anyons. We describe the procedure and analyze how it works for the different values of parameters of the theory. We also show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Andrey Morozov

Thermal noise can destroy topological insulators (TI). However we demonstrate how TIs can be made stable in dissipative systems. To that aim, we introduce the notion of band Liouvillian as the dissipative counterpart of band Hamiltonian,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 A. Rivas , O. Viyuela , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Motivated by the recent theoretical and experimental progress in implementing topological orders with photons, we analyze photonic systems with different topologies and present a scheme to probe their topological features. Specifically, we…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-17 Mohammad Hafezi

The low-energy excitations of a spin system can display Bloch bands with non-trivial topological properties. While topological magnons can be identified through the detection of chiral propagating modes at the sample's edge, an intriguing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Baptiste Bermond , Anaïs Defossez , Nathan Goldman

Topological Chern indices are related to the number of rotational states in each molecular vibrational band. Modification of the indices is associated to the appearance of ``band degeneracies'', and exchange of rotational states between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic Faure , Boris Zhilinskii

Chern insulators are states of matter characterized by a quantized Hall conductance, gapless edge modes but also a singular response to monopole configurations of an external electromagnetic field. In this paper, we describe the nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Thomas Klein Kvorning , Christian Spånslätt , AtMa P. O. Chan , Shinsei Ryu

Topological crystalline phases (TCPs) are topological states protected by spatial symmetries. A broad range of TCPs have been conventionally studied by formulating topological invariants (symmetry indicators) at invariant momenta in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-01 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Taylor L. Hughes

The interplay among topology, disorder, and non-Hermiticity can induce some exotic topological and localization phenomena. Here we investigate this interplay in a two-dimensional non-Hermitian disordered Chern-insulator model with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Ling-Zhi Tang , Ling-Feng Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Dan-Wei Zhang

We study topological properties of phase transition points of topological quantum phase transitions by assigning a topological invariant defined on a closed circle or surface surrounding the phase transition point in the parameter space of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-13 Linhu Li , Shu Chen

We show that topological characterization and classification in $D$-dimensional systems, which are thermodynamically large in only $D-\delta$ dimensions and finite in size in $\delta$ dimensions, is fundamentally different from that of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Ashley M. Cook , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Impurities embedded in electronic systems induce bound states which under certain circumstances can hybridize and lead to impurity bands. Doping of insulators with impurities has been identified as a promising route towards engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Emma L. Minarelli , Kim Pöyhönen , Gerwin A. R. van Dalum , Teemu Ojanen , Lars Fritz

A topological pump enables robust transport of quantized particles when the system parameters are varied in a cyclic process. In previous studies, topological pump was achieved inhomogeneous systems guaranteed by a topological invariant of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Bi-Ye Xie , Oubo You , Shuang Zhang

Although topological materials have recently seen tremendous development, their applications have remained elusive. Simultaneously, there exists considerable interest in pushing the limits of topological materials, including the exploration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sophia R. Sklan , Baowen Li

If an extensive partition in two dimensions yields a gapful entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix, the Berry curvature based on the corresponding entanglement eigenfunction defines the Chern number. We propose such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Fukui , Y. Hatsugai

Chern insulator systems are realizable in numerous physical systems and can support robust nonreciprocal transmission of energy. A routing functionality constructed from two counter-oriented Chern insulator regions, using coupled Haldane…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole , Sean D. Nixon

We investigate topological properties of density matrices motivated by the question to what extent phenomena like topological insulators and superconductors can be generalized to mixed states in the framework of open quantum systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Jan Carl Budich , Sebastian Diehl