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The appearance of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e systems can be rationalized by the presence of a fictitious magnetic field associated with the spatial texture of layer-resolved electronic wavefunctions. Here, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Kryštof Kolář , Kang Yang , Felix von Oppen , Christophe Mora

The high-Chern number phases with a Chern number C>1 have been observed in a recent experiment that performed on the topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures, consisting of the alternating magnetic-doped and undoped TI layers. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

The Chern number is a crucial topological invariant for distinguishing the phases of Chern insulators. Here we find that for Chern insulators with inversion symmetry, the Chern number alone is insufficient to fully characterize their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

Topological insulators are new states of matter in which the topological phase originates from symmetry breaking. Recently, time-reversal invariant topological insulators were demonstrated for classical wave systems, such as acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Yifan Zhu , Yugui Peng , Xudong Fan , Jing Yang , Bin Liang , Xuefeng Zhu , Jianchun Cheng

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

The surface of a higher order topological insulator (HOTI) comprises a two-dimensional topological insulator (TI) with broken inversion symmetry, whose mass is determined by the microscopic details of the surface such as surface potentials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Raquel Queiroz , Ady Stern

Based on density functional theory calculations including a Coulomb repulsion parameter $U$, we explore the topological properties of (La$X$O$_3$)$_2$/(LaAlO$_3$)$_4$(111) with $X=$ $4d$ and $5d$ cations. The metastable ferromagnetic phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-09 Okan Köksal , Rossitza Pentcheva

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Moir\'e systems made from stacked two-dimensional materials host novel correlated and topological states that can be electrically controlled via applied gate voltages. We have used this technique to manipulate Chern domains in an…

We construct a topological invariant that classifies density matrices of symmetry-protected topological orders in two-dimensional fermionic systems. As it is constructed out of the previously introduced Uhlmann phase, we refer to it as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-26 O. Viyuela , A. Rivas , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We study the topological phase in dipolar-coupled two-dimensional breathing square lattice of magnetic vortices. By evaluating the quantized Chern number and $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$ Berry phase, we obtain the phase diagram and identify that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Z. -X. Li , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

Despite sharing a common lattice structure, monolayer M$_2$X$_2$ compounds realize quantum anomalous Hall phases with distinct Chern numbers, a striking phenomenon that has not been fully exploared. Combining first-principles calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Zujian Dai , Xudong Zhu , Lixin He

We use the Dirac cone model to explore the high Chern number (C) phases that are realized in the magnetic-doped topological insulator (TI) multilayer structures by Zhao et al. [Nature 588, 419 (2020)]. The Chern number is calculated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

The scientific interest in two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs) is currently shifting from a more fundamental perspective to the exploration and design of novel functionalities. Key concepts for the use of 2D TIs in spintronics…

We explore the phase diagrams of moir\'e materials in search of a new class of intervalley-coherent correlated insulating state: the Chern texture insulator (CTI). This phase of matter, proposed in a companion paper, breaks valley $U(1)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Ziwei Wang , Yves H. Kwan , Glenn Wagner , Steven H. Simon , Nick Bultinck , S. A. Parameswaran

Topological insulators in three dimensions are studied as a problem of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The spin-orbit coupling is induced as a consequence of the supersymmetrization procedure and we show that it is equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

The Hopf insulators are characterized by a topological invariant called Hopf index which classifies maps from three-sphere to two-sphere, instead of a Chern number or a Chern parity. In contrast to topological insulator, the Hopf insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chang-Yan Wang , Yan He

Synthetic dimensions provide a powerful route to engineer topological lattice models in ultracold atomic systems, but they contain intrinsic nonlocal interactions along the synthetic direction. We investigate an extended Harper-Hofstadter…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-18 Patrick Liam Geraghty , Alberto Nardin , Leonardo Mazza , Matteo Rizzi

Different from the two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator, the 2D topological crystalline insulator (TCI) phase disappears when the mirror symmetry is broken, e.g., upon placing on a substrate. Here, based on a new family of 2D TCIs -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Niu , P. M. Buhl , G. Bihlmayer , D. Wortmann , S. Blugel , Y. Mokrousov

According to the mathematical classification of topological band structures, there exist a number of fascinating topological states in dimensions larger than three with exotic boundary phenomena and interesting topological responses. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Rui Yu , Y. X. Zhao , Andreas P. Schnyder