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A time periodic driving on a topologically trivial system induces edge modes and topological properties. In this work we consider triplet and singlet superconductors subject to periodic variations of the chemical potential, spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 P. D. Sacramento

We investigate the electronic and transport properties of topological and trivial InAs$_{1-x}$Bi$_x$ quantum dots (QDs). By considering the rapid band gap change within valence band anticrossing theory for InAs$_{1-x}$Bi$_x$, we predicted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Denis R. Candido , M. E. Flatté , J. Carlos Egues

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

We formulate the tight-binding model for cubic $\alpha$-Sn based on the DFT calculations. In the model, we incorporate a variable bond angle, which allows us to simulate the effect of the in-plane strain. In the bulk, we demonstrate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Jan Skolimowski , Nguyen Minh Nguyen , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri , Wojciech Brzezicki

Presence of entangled states is explicitly shown in Topological insulator (TI) $Bi_2Te_3$. The surface and bulk state are found to have the different structures of entanglement. The surface states live as maximally entangled states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Anvesh Raja Kovela , Anant Vijay Verma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Bhavesh Chauhan

Topological states require the presence of extended bulk states, as usually found in the picture of energy bands and topological states bridging the bulk gaps. But in driven systems this can be circumvented, and one can get topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Esteban A. Rodriguez-Mena , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We study the dynamics and timescales of a periodically driven Fermi-Hubbard model in a three-dimensional hexagonal lattice. The evolution of the Floquet many-body state is analyzed by comparing it to an equivalent implementation in undriven…

Using two-frequency driving in two dimensions opens up new possibilites for Floquet engineering, which range from controlling specific symmetries to tuning the properties of resonant gaps. In this work, we study two-band lattice models…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-19 Yixiao Wang , Anne-Sophie Walter , Gregor Jotzu , Konrad Viebahn

Discrete-step walks describe the dynamics of particles in a lattice subject to hopping or splitting events at discrete times. Despite being of primordial interest to the physics of quantum walks, the topological properties arising from…

Periodic driving provides a platform to dynamically tailor quantum states of matter, yet its impact on symmetry-protected topological phases remains incompletely understood. Here, we demonstrate that periodic driving enables the realization…

Time-periodic modulation of a static system is a powerful method for realizing robust unidirectional topological states. So far, all such realizations have been based on interactions among $s$ orbitals, without incorporating inter-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Gayathry Rajeevan , Sebabrata Mukherjee

We derived analytical results for the gapless edge states of two-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of electron-surface optical (SO) phonon interaction due to substrates. We followed an analytical algorithm, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 B. S. Kandemir , S. Atag

We study the Floquet edge states in arrays of periodically curved optical waveguides described by the modulated Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Beyond the bulk-edge correspondence, our study explores the interplay between band topology and…

In recent years, second-order topological insulators have been proposed as a new class of topological insulators. Second-order topological insulators are materials with gapped bulk and surfaces, but with topologically protected gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Yutaro Tanaka , Ryo Takahashi , Shuichi Murakami

Topological corner states are exotic topological boundary states that are bounded to zero-dimensional geometry even the dimension of systems is large than one. As an elegant physical correspondence, their numbers are dictated by the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Yi Li , Jia-Hui Zhang , Feng Mei , Biye Xie , Ming-Hui Lu , Jie Ma , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

We study the non-Hermitian topology of multi-terminal transport in a quantum spin-Hall device described by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model. We show that breaking time-reversal symmetry alone does not imply non-reciprocal transport or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Raghav Chaturvedi , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Topology played an important role in physics research during the last few decades. In particular, the quantum geometric tensor that provides local information about topological properties has attracted much attention. It will reveal…

Higher-order topological insulators have triggered great interests because of exhibitions of non-trivial bulk topology on lower-dimensional boundaries like corners and hinges. While such interesting phases have been investigated in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ya-Jie Wu , Wen He , Ning Li , Zhitong Li , Junpeng Hou

Similar to static systems, periodically driven systems can host a variety of topologically non-trivial phases. Unlike the case of static Hamiltonians, the topological indices of bulk Floquet bands may fail to describe the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. C. Fulga , M. Maksymenko