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High-order topological insulators (HOTIs), as generalized from topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), are characterized with lower-dimensional metallic boundary states protected by spatial symmetries of a crystal, whose theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Citian Wang , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

In this work, we identify a new class of Z2 topological insulator protected by non-symmorphic crystalline symmetry, dubbed a "topological non-symmorphic crystalline insulator". We construct a concrete tight-binding model with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chao-Xing Liu , Rui-Xing Zhang

Motivated by recent progress in crystalline symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases of interacting bosons, we study topological crystalline insulators/superconductors (TCIs) of strongly interacting fermions. We construct a class of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Alex Rasmussen , Yuan-Ming Lu

Real Chern insulators have attracted great interest, but so far, their material realization is limited to nonmagnetic crystals and to systems without spin-orbit coupling. Here, we reveal magnetic real Chern insulator (MRCI) state in a…

Recent attempts at topological materials have revealed a large class of materials that show gapless surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry and crystal symmetries. Among them, topological insulating states protected by crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-20 J. Howard , A. Rodriguez , N. Haldolaarachchige , K. Hettiarachchilage

We study surface states of topological crystalline insulators and superconductors protected by inversion symmetry. These fall into the category of "higher-order" topological insulators and superconductors which possess surface states that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Eslam Khalaf

We construct microscopical models of one-dimensional non-interacting topological insulators in all of the chiral universality classes. Specifically, we start with a deformation of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model that breaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Polina Matveeva , Tyler Hewitt , Donghao Liu , Kethan Reddy , Dmitri Gutman , Sam T. Carr

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), a new state of quantum matter, are promising for achieving the low-power-consuming electronic devices owning to the remarkable robustness of their conducting edge states against…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine

Different from the two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator, the 2D topological crystalline insulator (TCI) phase disappears when the mirror symmetry is broken, e.g., upon placing on a substrate. Here, based on a new family of 2D TCIs -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Niu , P. M. Buhl , G. Bihlmayer , D. Wortmann , S. Blugel , Y. Mokrousov

We study translationally-invariant insulators with inversion symmetry that fall outside the established classification of topological insulators. These insulators are not required to have gapless boundary modes in the energy spectrum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Taylor L. Hughes , Emil Prodan , B. Andrei Bernevig

We explore the 32 crystallographic point groups and identify topological phases of matter with robust surface modes. For n =3,4 and 6 of the C_{nv} groups, we find the first-known 3D topological insulators without spin-orbit coupling, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-17 A. Alexandradinata , Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

Topological crystalline phases in electronic structures can be generally classified using the spatial symmetry characters of the valence bands and mapping them onto appropriate symmetry indicators. These mappings have been recently applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Sander H. Kooi , Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix

We consider the problem of constructing Wannier functions for Z_2 topological insulators in two dimensions. It is well known that there is a topological obstruction to the construction of Wannier functions for Chern insulators, but it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-23 Alexey A. Soluyanov , David Vanderbilt

We propose a minimal tight-binding model for thin films made of topological crystalline insulator (TCI) on the basis of the mirror and discrete rotational symmetries. The basic term consists of the spin-orbit interaction describing a Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Motohiko Ezawa

We construct an interacting lattice model for twisted $\mathrm{MoTe}_{2}$ bilayers at a twist angle of approximately 3.7\degree. We use the infinite density matrix renormalization group (iDMRG) in a cylinder geometry to identify a variety…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Yuchi He , S. H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

Topological insulators (TIs) are a novel class of materials with nontrivial surface or edge states. Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) protected TIs are characterized by the Z2 topological invariant and their helical property becomes lost in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Lingjie Du , Ivan Knez , Gerard Sullivan , Rui-Rui Du

Three-dimensional topological (crystalline) insulators are materials with an insulating bulk, but conducting surface states which are topologically protected by time-reversal (or spatial) symmetries. Here, we extend the notion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Frank Schindler , Ashley M. Cook , Maia G. Vergniory , Zhijun Wang , Stuart S. P. Parkin , B. Andrei Bernevig , Titus Neupert

We present models of topological insulating Hamiltonians exhibiting intrinsic altermagnetic features, protected by combined three-fold or four-fold rotational symmetries with time-reversal. We demonstrate that the spin Chern number serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

We propose a two-dimensional non-Hermitian Chern insulator with inversion symmetry, which is anisotropic and has staggered gain and loss in both x and y directions. In this system, conventional bulk-boundary correspondence holds. The Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

Quantized responses are important tools for understanding and characterizing the universal features of topological phases of matter. In this work, we consider a class of topological crystalline insulators in $3$D with $C_n$ lattice rotation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 Julian May-Mann , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Xuchen Cao , Taylor L. Hughes