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We extend the theory of dipole moments in crystalline insulators to higher multipole moments. In this paper, we expand in great detail the theory presented in Ref. 1, and extend it to cover associated topological pumping phenomena, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes

We present a fully many-body formulation of topological invariants for various topological phases of fermions protected by antiunitary symmetry, which does not refer to single particle wave functions. For example, we construct the many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-07 Ken Shiozaki , Hassan Shapourian , Kiyonori Gomi , Shinsei Ryu

We survey various quantized bulk physical observables in two- and three-dimensional topological band insulators invariant under translational symmetry and crystallographic point group symmetries (PGS). In two-dimensional insulators, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

Integer and fractional Chern insulators exhibit a nonzero quantized anomalous Hall conductivity due to a spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry. To identify nontrivial topology in their time-reversal symmetric many-body spectra, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Axel Fünfhaus , Titus Neupert , Thilo Kopp , Roser Valentí

Many-body topological quantum states host exotic quantum phenomena and lie at the forefront of developing next-generation quantum technologies. Recently emerged neural network wavefunction methods have established themselves as a powerful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Haoxiang Chen , Yubing Qian , Weiluo Ren , Xiang Li , Ji Chen

Higher-order topological insulators, as a novel family of topological phases, are a hot frontier in condensed matter physics due to their adherence to unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence. A three-dimensional second-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Han-Rong Xia , Jia-Zheng Li , Si-Yu Yuan , Meng Xiao

The prediction of non-trivial topological phases in Bloch insulators in three dimensions has recently been experimentally verified. Here, I provide a picture for obtaining the $Z_{2}$ invariants for a three dimensional topological insulator…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-21 Rahul Roy

We extend the previously defined many-body marker for two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulators [I. Gilardoni {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 106}, L161106 (2022)] to distinguish trivial, weak-, and strong-topological insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Federico Becca , Alberto Parola

Quench dynamics of topological phases have been studied in the past few years and dynamical topological invariants are formulated in different ways. Yet most of these invariants are limited to minimal systems in which Hamiltonians are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Xi Wu , Ze Yang , Fuxiang Li

We show that certain three-dimensional multigap topological insulators can host quantized integrated shift photoconductivities due to bulk invariants that are defined under reality conditions imposed by additional symmetries. We recast the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager

Two-dimensional 2-bands insulators breaking time reversal symmetry can present topological phases indexed by a topological invariant called the Chern number. Here we first propose an efficient procedure to determine this topological index.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Doru Sticlet , Frederic Piéchon , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Pavel Kalugin , Pascal Simon

We approach the long-standing problem of preparing an out-of-equilibrium many-body Chern insulator (CI) and associated bulk-boundary correspondence unitarily. Herein, this is addressed by constructing a dynamical many-body Chern invariant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-15 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Amit Dutta

We construct a many-body quantized invariant that sharply distinguishes among two dimensional non-equilibrium driven phases of interacting fermions. This is an interacting generalization of a band-structure Floquet quasi-energy winding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Lukasz Fidkowski , Hoi Chun Po , Andrew C. Potter , Ashvin Vishwanath

Higher-order topological insulators in two spatial dimensions display fractional corner charges. While fractional charges in one dimension are known to be captured by a many-body bulk invariant, computed by the Resta formula, a many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-09 Ammar Jahin , Yuan-Ming Lu , Yuxuan Wang

One of the main topological invariants that characterizes several topologically-ordered phases is the many-body Chern number (MBCN). Paradigmatic examples include several fractional quantum Hall phases, which are expected to be realized in…

We define and compute many-body topological invariants of interacting fermionic symmetry-protected topological phases, protected by an orientation-reversing symmetry, such as time-reversal or reflection symmetry. The topological invariants…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-31 Hassan Shapourian , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu

The chiral hinge modes are the key feature of a second order topological insulator in three dimensions. Here we propose a quadrupole index in combination of a slab Chern number in the bulk to characterize the flowing pattern of chiral hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

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

A hallmark feature of topological physics is the presence of one-way propagating chiral modes at the system boundary. The chirality of edge modes is a consequence of the topological character of the bulk. For example, in a non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sunil Mittal , Sriram Ganeshan , Jingyun Fan , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mohammad Hafezi

We explore the 32 crystallographic point groups and identify topological phases of matter with robust surface modes. For n =3,4 and 6 of the C_{nv} groups, we find the first-known 3D topological insulators without spin-orbit coupling, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-17 A. Alexandradinata , Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig
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