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Breaking time reversal symmetry in a topological insulator may lead to quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion insulator phase. MnBi4Te7 is a recently discovered antiferromagnetic topological insulator with TN ~12.5 K, which is constituted…

We theoretically study electronic states in graded-gap junctions of IV-VI compounds with band inversion. Using a two-band model within the ${\bf k}\cdot{\bf p}$ approximation and assuming that the gap and the gap centre present linear…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Francisco Dominguez-Adame

Topologically protected edge channels show prospects for quantum devices. They have been found experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), weak topological insulators and higher-order topological insulators…

Properties of low-energy excitations in one-dimensional superconductors and density-wave systems are examined by the bosonization technique. In addition to the usual spin and charge quantum numbers, a new, independently measurable attribute…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. I. Salkola , J. R. Schrieffer

Topological edge states arise at the interface of two topologically-distinct structures and have two distinct features: they are localized and robust against symmetry protecting disorder. On the other hand, conventional transport in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Jannatul Ferdous , Cem Yuce , Andrea Alù , Hamidreza Ramezani

While usual edge states in the quantum Hall effect(QHE) reside between adjacent Landau levels, QHE in graphene has a peculiar edge mode at E=0 that reside right within the n=0 Landau level as protected by the chiral symmetry. We have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Mitsuhiro Arikawa , Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Hideo Aoki

Recently topological superconducting states has attracted a lot of interest. In this work, we consider a topo- logical superconductor with $Z_2$ topological mirror order [1] and s$\pm$-wave superconducting pairing symmetry, within a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-18 Yuan-Yen Tai , Hongchul Choi , Towfiq Ahmed , C. S. Ting , Jian-Xin Zhu

We investigate the chiral edge states in the two-dimensional ferromagntic kagom\'{e} lattice with spin anisotropies included. The system is periodic in the $x$ direction but has two edges in the $y$ direction. The Harper equation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

Tight-binding model on a finite chain is studied with four-fold alternated hopping parameters $t_{1,2,3,4}$. Imposing the open boundary conditions, the corresponding recursion is solved analytically with special attention paid to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 M. Eliashvili , D. Kereselidze , G. Tsitsishvili , M. Tsitsishvili

We prove a general theorem on the relation between the bulk topological quantum number and the edge states in two dimensional insulators. It is shown that whenever there is a topological order in bulk, characterized by a non-vanishing Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Liang Qi , Yong-Shi Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study electron transport at the edge of a generic disordered two-dimensional topological insulator, where some channels are topologically protected from backscattering. Assuming the total number of channels is large, we consider the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 E. Khalaf , M. A. Skvortsov , P. M. Ostrovsky

We study disorder effects in a two-dimensional system with chiral symmetry and find that disorder can induce a quadrupole topological insulating phase (a higher-order topological phase with quadrupole moments) from a topologically trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yan-Bin Yang , Kai Li , L. -M. Duan , Yong Xu

Edge/surface states often appear in a topologically nontrivial phase, when the system has a boundary. The edge state of a one-dimensional topological insulator is one of the simplest examples. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) is an ideal probe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-21 Yuan Yao , Masahiro Sato , Tetsuya Nakamura , Nobuo Furukawa , Masaki Oshikawa

Topological materials hosting metallic edges characterized by integer quantized conductivity in an insulating bulk have revolutionized our understanding of transport in matter. The topological protection of these edge states is based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 R. Canyellas , Chen Liu , R. Arouca , L. Eek , Guanyong Wang , Yin Yin , Dandan Guan , Yaoyi Li , Shiyong Wang , Hao Zheng , Canhua Liu , Jinfeng Jia , C. Morais Smith

Topologically protected surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators provide a model framework for studying massless Dirac electrons in two dimensions. Usually a step on the surface of a topological insulator is treated as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 N. I. Fedotov , S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov

Edge localization is a fascinating quantum phenomenon. In this paper, the underlying mechanism generating it is presented analytically and verified numerically for a weakly kicked three-dimensional rotor. Analogy to tight binding model in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Alexandra Bakman , Hagar Veksler , Shmuel Fishman

I study theoretically quadrupolar topological insulators under applied static electric field rotated along the crystal axis. I demonstrate, that the energy spectrum of this structure is a Wannier-Stark ladder that is quantized and directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander N. Poddubny

Topological phases play a crucial role in the fundamental physics of light-matter interaction and emerging applications of quantum technologies. However, the topological band theory of waveguide QED systems is known to break down, because…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-08 Yongguan Ke , Jiaxuan Huang , Wenjie Liu , Yuri Kivshar , Chaohong Lee

A model of quasistationary states is constructed for the one-dimensional edge states propagating along the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator based on HgTe/CdTe quantum well in the presence of magnetic barriers with finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 D. V. Khomitsky , E. A. Lavrukhina

Topological surface-states can acquire an energy gap when time-reversal symmetry is broken by interfacing with a magnetic insulator. This gap has yet to be measured. Such topological-magnetic insulator heterostructures can host a quantized…