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Topology has appeared in different physical contexts. The most prominent application is topologically protected edge transport in condensed matter physics. The Chern number, the topological invariant of gapped Bloch Hamiltonians, is an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Thomas Fösel , Vittorio Peano , Florian Marquardt

Recently, it has been shown how topological phases of matter with crystalline symmetry and $U(1)$ charge conservation can be partially characterized by a set of many-body invariants, the discrete shift $\mathscr{S}_{\text{o}}$ and electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

We investigate the higher-order bulk-boundary correspondence in a family of chiral-symmetric Bloch Hamiltonians with anticommuting mirror symmetries. These models generalize the $\pi$-flux square lattice, the prototypical topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Suman Aich , Babak Seradjeh

Using first principles methods, we investigate topological phase transitions as a function of exchange field in a Bi(111) bilayer. Evaluation of the spin Chern number for different magnitudes of the exchange field reveals that when the time…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Hongbin Zhang , Frank Freimuth , Gustav Bihlmayer , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

Here, building on our previous work [Phys. Rev. B, 92, 125153, (2015)], it is shown that the propagation of unidirectional gapless edge states at an interface of two topologically distinct electromagnetic continua with a well-behaved…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-03 Mario G. Silveirinha

We present examples in three symmetry classes of topological insulators in one or two dimensions where the proof of the bulk-edge correspondence is particularly simple. This serves to illustrate the mechanism behind the bulk-edge principle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jacob Shapiro

We investigate a two-dimensional superconducting system with a smoothly and periodically varying order parameter. The order parameter is modulated along one direction while remaining uniform in the perpendicular direction, leading to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-13 Klaus Ziegler

Topological insulators are noninteracting, gapped fermionic systems which have gapless boundary excitations. They are characterized by topological invariants, which can be written in many different ways, including in terms of Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Andrew M. Essin , Victor Gurarie

We show that two-dimensional band insulators, with vanishing bulk polarization, obey bulk-and-edge to corner charge correspondence stating that the knowledge of the bulk and the two corresponding ribbon band structures uniquely determines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Luka Trifunovic

The mode-shell correspondence relates the number $I_M$ of gapless modes in phase space to a topological \textit{shell invariant} $\Ish$ defined on a close surface -- the shell -- surrounding those modes, namely $I_M=I_S$. In part I, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Lucien Jezequel , Pierre Delplace

The Chern number has been widely used to describe the topological properties of periodic structures in the momentum space. Here, we introduce a real-space spin Chern number for the optical near fields of finite-sized structures. This new…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-03 Tong Fu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Shiqi Jia , C. T. Chan , Shubo Wang

We study the two-dimensional rotating shallow-water model describing Earth's oceanic layers. It is formally analogue to a Schr\"odinger equation where the tools from topological insulators are relevant. Once regularized at small scale by an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Gian Michele Graf , Hansueli Jud , Clément Tauber

We use the compactified twistor correspondence for the (2+1)-dimensional integrable chiral model to prove a conjecture of Ward. In particular, we construct the correspondence space of a compactified twistor fibration and use it to prove…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Prim Plansangkate

This paper discusses a connection between two important classes of materials, namely quasicrystals and topological insulators as exemplified by the Quantum Hall problem. It has been remarked that the quasicrystal ``inherits" topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Anuradha Jagannathan

In this Letter we supervisedly train neural networks to distinguish different topological phases in the context of topological band insulators. After training with Hamiltonians of one-dimensional insulators with chiral symmetry, the neural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

Topological quantum phases of matter have been a topic of intense interest in contemporary condensed matter physics. Extensive efforts are devoted to investigate various exotic properties of topological matters including topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-25 Woo-Ram Lee , Kwon Park

We consider a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain to which we attach a semi-infinite undimerized chain (lead) to both ends. We study the effect of the openness of the SSH model on its properties. A representation of the infinite system using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Alexei Bissonnette , Nicolas Delnour , Andrew Mckenna , Hichem Eleuch , Michael Hilke , Richard MacKenzie

The bulk-boundary correspondence relates topologically-protected edge modes to bulk topological invariants, and is well-understood for short-range free-fermion chains. Although case studies have considered long-range Hamiltonians whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Nick G. Jones , Ryan Thorngren , Ruben Verresen

The spectrum and wave function of helical edge modes in Z_2 topological insulator are derived on a square lattice using Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang (BHZ) model. The BHZ model is characterized by a "mass" term M (k) that is parameterized as M (k)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Ai Yamakage , Shijun Mao , Akira Hotta , Yoshio Kuramoto

The quantum Hall effect, fundamental in modern condensed matter physics, continuously inspires new theories and predicts emergent phases of matter. Here we experimentally demonstrate three types of Chern insulators with synthetic dimensions…