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Gapless Dirac surface states are protected at the interface of topological and normal band insulators. In a binary superlattice bearing such interfaces, we establish that valley-dependent dimerization of symmetry-unrelated Dirac surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-31 Xiao Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Niu , Ji Feng

Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moir\'e Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-22 Xiaoyang Shen , Chonghao Wang , Ruiping Guo , Zhiming Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

In two dimensions, Hermitian lattices with non-zero Chern numbers and non-Hermitian lattices with a higher-order skin effect (HOSE) bypass the constraints of the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem at their one-dimensional boundaries. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yifan Wang , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

Two-component fermionic superfluids on a lattice with an external non-Abelian gauge field give access to a variety of topological phases in presence of a sufficiently large spin imbalance. We address here the important issue of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-13 A. Kubasiak , P. Massignan , M. Lewenstein

We present an ab initio analysis of a continuous Hamiltonian that maps into the celebrated Haldane model. The tunnelling coefficients of the tight-binding model are computed by means of two independent methods - one based on the maximally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz , Asier Eiguren , Aitor Bergara , Giulio Pettini , Michele Modugno

We investigate topological band structures of a kagome system coupled to a circularly polarized cavity mode, using a model based on a muffin-tin potential and quantum light-matter interaction. We show that Chern insulating phases emerge in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Hikaru Goto , Ryo Okugawa , Takami Tohyama

Recent breakthroughs in hyperbolic lattices have expanded the study of topological phases of matter from Euclidean to non-Euclidean spaces. However, prior work has mostly focused on spatial topological states at the single outer edge of…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jingming Chen , Zebin Zhu , Minqi Cheng , Linyun Yang , Yuxin Zhong , Zhen Gao

Chern insulators are band insulators which exhibit a gap in the bulk and gapless excitations in the edge. Detection of Chern insulators is a serious challenge in cold atoms since the Hall transport measurements are technically unrealistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Xiong-Jun Liu , K. T. Law , T. K. Ng , Patrick A. Lee

Alternating current (ac) circuits can have electromagnetic edge modes protected by symmetries, analogous to topological band insulators or semimetals. How to make such a topological circuit? This paper illustrates a particular design idea…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Erhai Zhao

The search for strong topological phases in generic aperiodic materials and meta-materials is now vigorously pursued by the condensed matter physics community. In this work, we first introduce the concept of patterned resonators as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Chris Bourne , Emil Prodan

We study topological insulators under dephasing noise. With examples of both a $2d$ Chern insulator and a $3d$ topological insulator protected by time-reversal symmetry, we demonstrate that there is a phase transition at finite dephasing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-17 Thomas G. Kiely , Cenke Xu

Non-symmorphic symmetries protect Dirac nodal lines and cones in lattice systems. Here, we investigate the spectral properties of a two-dimensional lattice belonging to a non-symmorphic group. Specifically, we look at the herringbone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 M. A. J. Herrera , D. Bercioux

We investigate the two-leg Hubbard model with diagonal hopping to explore the interplay between geometrical frustration and strong electron-electron interactions. Using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method, we demonstrate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-04 João Pedro Gama D'Elia , Thereza Paiva

In this letter we show how the topological number of a static Hamiltonian can be measured from a dynamical quench process. We focus on a two-band Chern insulator in two-dimension, for instance, the Haldane model, whose dynamical process can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-10 Ce Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinlong Yu , Hui Zhai

We propose a platform for flat Chern band by subjecting two-dimensional Dirac materials -- such as graphene and topological insulator thin films -- to a periodic magnetic field, which can be created by the vortex lattice of a type-II…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Junkai Dong , Jie Wang , Liang Fu

The emergence of the Haldane Chern insulator state due to strong short range repulsive interactions in the half-filled fermionic spinless honeycomb lattice model has been proposed and challenged with different methods and yet it still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-02 Johannes Motruk , Adolfo G. Grushin , Fernando de Juan , Frank Pollmann

We show how strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions can be realized with ultracold atoms in a two-dimensional optical square lattice with an experimentally realistic, inherent gauge field, which breaks time-reversal and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Lih-King Lim , Achilleas Lazarides , Andreas Hemmerich , C. Morais Smith

The advent of Dirac materials has made it possible to realize two dimensional gases of relativistic fermions with unprecedented transport properties in condensed matter. Their photoconductive control with ultrafast light pulses is opening…

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori