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We propose characterization of the three-dimensional topological insulator by using the Chern number for the entanglement Hamiltonian (entanglement Chern number). Here we take the extensive spin partition of the system, that pulls out the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Hiromu Araki , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

A family of semiconductors called as Chern band insulator are shown to host exciton bands with non-zero topological Chern integers and chiral exciton edge modes. Using a prototypical two-band Chern insulator model, we calculate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Ke Chen , Ryuichi Shindou

We propose a universal theory for tunable second-order topological corner states induced by interlayer coupling in bilayer Chern insulators with opposite Chern numbers. We demonstrate that the existence of the topological corner state is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Cheng-Ming Miao , Yu-Hao Wan , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We predict twisted double bilayer graphene to be a versatile platform for the realization of fractional Chern insulators readily targeted by tuning the gate potential and the twist angle. Remarkably, these topologically ordered states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Zhao Liu , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Emil J. Bergholtz

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

Under suitable conditions, some twisted graphene multilayers and transition-metal dichalcogenides become Chern insulators, exhibiting the anomalous quantum Hall effect and orbital magnetization due to spontaneous valley polarization. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

A monolayer of transition metal trichalcogenides has received a lot of attention as potential two dimensional magnetic materials. The system has a honeycomb structure of transition metal ions, where both spin-orbit coupling and electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-09 Archana Mishra , SungBin Lee

We analyse the topological transition and localization evolution of disordered two dimensional systems with non trivial topology based on bipartite lattices. Chern insulators with broken time reversal symmetry show non standard behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Eduardo V. Castro , M. Pilar López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

Here we study the systematic evolution of the topological properties of a Chern insulator in presence of an electronic dispersion that can be tuned smoothly from being Dirac-like till a semi-Dirac one and beyond. The band structure under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Sayan Mondal , Priyadarshini Kapri , Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Saurabh Basu

We consider multi-terminal transport through a flake of rectangular shape of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. This system has been shown to be a second-order topological insulator, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Joseph Poata , Fabio Taddei , Michele Governale

We propose an approach to induce nontrivial bands with non-zero Chern numbers by utilizing strong spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides with dopants. We demonstrate that a doped state near the valence-band edge induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Dinh Loc Duong

Chern numbers are gaining traction as they characterize topological phases in various physical systems. However, the resilience of the system topology to external perturbations makes it challenging to experimentally investigate transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Junghyun Lee , Keigo Arai , Huiliang Zhang , Mark J. H. Ku , Ronald L. Walsworth

The ferromagnetic metal-superconductor heterostructure with interface Rashba spin-orbit hopping is a promising candidate for topological superconductivity. We study the interplay between the interface Rashba hopping and the intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-15 Yingwen Zhang , Dao-Xin Yao , Zhi Wang

Two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac materials are characterized by a quadratic dispersion in one direction and a linear dispersion along the orthogonal direction. We study the topological phase transition in such 2D systems in the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-01 Kush Saha

We theoretically demonstrate that Chern number tunable quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and second-order topological insulators can be induced in the two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator (TI), i.e., Kane-Mele model, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhengtian Li , Zeyu Li , Zhenhua Qiao

We study magnon-polaron hybrid states, mediated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and magnetoelastic interactions, in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic insulator. The magnetic system consists of both in-plane and flexural acoustic and optical phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jostein N. Kløgetvedt , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Quasi-periodic quantum spin chains were recently found to support many topological phases in the finite magnetization sectors. They can simulate strong topological phases from class A in arbitrary dimension that are characterized by first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Yifei Liu , Emil Prodan

There is strong interest in discovering or designing wide gap Chern insulators. Here we follow a Chern insulator to trivial Mott insulator transition versus interaction strength U in a honeycomb lattice Fe-based transition metal oxide,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-26 Young-Joon Song , Kyo-Hoon Ahn , W. E. Pickett , K. -W. Lee

We study the behaviour of electrons interacting with a classical magnetic background via a strong Hund coupling. The magnetic background results from a Hamiltonian which favours at low temperature the emergence of a phase with non-zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-06 H. D. Rosales , F. A. Gómez Albarracín , P. Pujol

We propose and investigate a spin transistor device consisting of two ferromagnetic leads connected by a two-dimensional topological insulator as the channel material. It exploits the unique features of the topological spin-helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Xianbo Xiao , Ying Liu , Zhengfang Liu , Guoping Ai , Shengyuan A. Yang , Guanghui Zhou