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Topology is routinely used to understand the physics of electronic insulators. However, for strongly interacting electronic matter, such as Mott insulators, a comprehensive topological characterization is still lacking. When their ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Martina O. Soldini , Ömer M. Aksoy , Titus Neupert

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

Topological crystalline insulators define a new class of topological insulator phases with gapless surface states protected by crystalline symmetries. In this work, we present a general theory to classify topological crystalline insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Xiao-Yu Dong , Chao-Xing Liu

Discrete degrees of freedom, such as spin and orbital, can provide intriguing strategies to manipulate electrons, photons, and phonons. With a spin degree of freedom, topological insulators have stimulated intense interests in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Jingwen Ma , Xiang Xi , Yuan Li , Xiankai Sun

Gapless surface states of time reversal invariant topological insulators are protected by the anti-unitary nature of the time reversal operation. Very recently, this idea was generalized to magnetic structures, in which time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

We discuss physical properties of `integer' topological phases of bosons in D=3+1 dimensions, protected by internal symmetries like time reversal and/or charge conservation. These phases invoke interactions in a fundamental way but do not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter in which surface states residing in the bulk insulating gap are protected by time-reversal symmetry. When a proper kind of antiferromagnetic long range order is established in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jing Wang , Rundong Li , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi

In this lecture for the Nobel symposium, we review previous research on a class of translational-invariant insulators without spin-orbit coupling. These may be realized in intrinsically spinless systems such as photonic crystals and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-14 A. Alexandradinata , B. Andrei Bernevig

In principle the stacking of different two-dimensional (2D) materials allows the construction of 3D systems with entirely new electronic properties. Here we propose to realize topological crystalline insulators (TCI) protected by mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Sanjib Kumar Das , Binghai Yan , Jeroen van den Brink , Ion Cosma Fulga

In this paper we review some connections recently discovered between topological insulators and certain classes of quantum spin liquids, focusing on two and three spatial dimensions. In two dimensions we show the integer quantum Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-29 Gregory A. Fiete , Victor Chua , Mehdi Kargarian , Rex Lundgren , Andreas Ruegg , Jun Wen , Vladimir Zyuzin

Quadrupole topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators with quantized quadrupole moments, which support protected gapless corner states. The experimental demonstrations of quadrupole-topological insulators were reported…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Bo Lv , Rui Chen , Rujiang Li , Chunying Guan , Bin Zhou , Guohua Dong , Chao Zhao , YiCheng Li , Ying Wang , Huibin Tao , Jinhui Shi , Dong-Hui Xu

Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

In recent years, higher-order topological phases have attracted great interest in various fields of physics. These phases have protected boundary states at lower-dimensional boundaries than the conventional first-order topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yan-Bin Yang , Jiong-Hao Wang , Kai Li , Yong Xu

In recent years, the role of crystal symmetries in enriching the variety of TIs have been actively investigated. Higher-order TIs are a new type of topological crystalline insulators that exhibit gapless boundary states whose dimensionality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-20 Akishi Matsugatani , Haruki Watanabe

Recent formal classifications of crystalline topological insulators predict that the combination of time-reversal and rotational symmetry gives rise to topological invariants beyond the ones known for other lattice symmetries. Although the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-01 Jans Henke , Mert Kurttutan , Jorrit Kruthoff , Jasper van Wezel

Second-order topological insulators are crystalline insulators with a gapped bulk and gapped crystalline boundaries, but topologically protected gapless states at the intersection of two boundaries. Without further spatial symmetries, five…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Josias Langbehn , Yang Peng , Luka Trifunovic , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer

Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Brayden Ware , Itamar Kimchi , S. A. Parameswaran , Bela Bauer

Higher-order topological insulators are established as topological crystalline insulators protected by crystalline symmetries. One celebrated example is the second-order topological insulator in three dimensions that hosts chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yan-Bin Yang , Ning Dai , Yong Xu

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) which go beyond the description of conventional bulk-boundary correspondence, broaden the understanding of topological insulating phases. Being mainly focused on electronic materials, HOTIs have…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Bi Ye Xie , Hong Fei Wang , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xue Yi Zhu , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming Hui Lu , Yan Feng Chen

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are insulating electronic phases of matter with nontrivial topology originating from crystalline symmetries. Recent theoretical advances have provided powerful guidelines to search for TCIs in real…