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We have studied extensively the band crossing patterns of the bulk entanglement spectrum (BES) for various lattice Chern insulators. We find that only partitions with dual symmetry can have either stable nodal-lines or nodal-points in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 Dah-Wei Chiou , Hsien-Chung Kao , Feng-Li Lin

Topological insulators are exotic material that possess conducting surface states protected by the topology of the system. They can be classified in terms of their properties under discrete symmetries and are characterized by topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-29 M. Mochol-Grzelak , A. Dauphin , A. Celi , M. Lewenstein

A brief introduction to topological phases is provided, considering several two-band Hamiltonians in one- and two-dimensions. Relevant concepts of the topological insulator theory, such as: Berry phase, Chern number, and the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-31 Leandro O. Nascimento

We review various features of interacting Abelian topological phases of matter in two spatial dimensions, placing particular emphasis on fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) and fractional topological insulators (FTIs). We highlight aspects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-17 Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Thomas Iadecola , Luiz H. Santos , Christopher Mudry

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) realized in fractional quantum Hall systems subject to a periodic potential are topological phases of matter for which space group symmetries play an important role. In particular, lattice dislocations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Christina Knapp , Eric M. Spanton , Andrea F. Young , Chetan Nayak , Michael P. Zaletel

The topological properties in topological superconductors are usually characterized by the bulk Chern numbers, edge-state spectra, and Majorana zero modes. Whether they are equivalent or inequivalent is not well understood. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Ping Liu , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

Topological invariants, such as the Chern number, characterise topological phases of matter. Here we provide a method to detect Chern numbers in systems with two distinct species of fermion, such as spins, orbitals or several atomic states.…

Compared with twisted bilayer graphene, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) provides another important platform to realize the moir\'e flat bands. In this paper, we first calculate the valley Chern number phase diagram of TDBG in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li , Zi-Yue Zhang

Narrow band electron systems are particularly likely to exhibit correlated many-body phases driven by interaction effects. Examples include magnetic materials, heavy fermion systems, and topological phases such as fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-19 Ching Hua Lee , Daniel P. Arovas , Ronny Thomale

We investigate the relation between the localization of generalized Wannier bases and the topological properties of two-dimensional gapped quantum systems of independent electrons in a disordered background, including magnetic fields, as in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Giovanna Marcelli , Massimo Moscolari , Gianluca Panati

Chern insulators arguably provide the simplest examples of topological phases. They are characterized by a topological invariant and can be identified by the presence of protected edge states. In this article, we show that a local impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 Vibhuti Bhushan Jha , Garima Rani , R. Ganesh

High spin-Chern-number topological phases provide a promising low-dimensional platform for realizing double-helical edge states. In this letter, we show how these edge states can host a variety of phases driven by electron interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Yi-Chun Hung , Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Arun Bansil

We prove that Chern insulators have topologically protected edge states which not only propagate unidirectionally along a straight line boundary, but also swerve around arbitrary-angled corners and geometric imperfections of the material…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Guo Chuan Thiang

An outstanding challenge in the field of topological insulators is the realization of nonlinear systems that support coherent traveling waves. Highly nonlinear lattices can suffer from significant radiation losses due to Peierls-Nabarro…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-22 Troy I. Johnson , Justin T. Cole

We introduce a simple method to realize and detect photonic topological Chern insulators with one-dimensional circiut quantum electrodynamics arrays. By periodically modulating the couplings of the array, we show that this one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Feng Mei , Jia-Bin You , Wei Nie , R. Fazio , Shi-Liang Zhu , L. C. Kwek

We propose a non-Hermitian topological system protected by the generalized rotational symmetry which invokes rotation in space and Hermitian conjugation. The system, described by the tight-binding model with nonreciprocal hopping, is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Kai Chen , Alexander B. Khanikaev

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

Graphene can be turned into a semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry by adding a valley-dependent pseudo-scalar potential that shifts the Dirac point energies in opposite directions, as in the modified Haldane model. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Marwa Mannaï , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Frédéric Piéchon , Sonia Haddad

We discuss the emergence of topological color insulators in optical lattices as quantum phases of SU(3) ultra-cold neutral fermions. We construct the Chern matrix and classify all insulating phases in terms of three topological invariants:…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-30 Man Hon Yau , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Topological band insulators are classified using momentum-space topological invariants, such as Chern or winding numbers, when they feature translational symmetry. The lack of translation symmetry in disordered, quasicrystalline, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Lucien Jezequel , Jens H. Bardarson , Adolfo G. Grushin