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Topological phases like topological insulators or superconductors are fascinating quantum states of matter, featuring novel properties such as emergent chiral edge states or Majorana fermions with non-Abelian braiding statistics. The recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

Topological Insulators (TI) exhibit robust spin-locked dissipationless Fermion transport along the surface states. In the current study, we use \textit{first-principles} calculations to investigate a Topological Phase Transition (TPT) in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-23 Raghottam M Sattigeri , Sharad Babu Pillai , Prafulla K Jha , Brahmananda Chakraborty

Antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFTI) is a topological matter that breaks time-reversal symmetry. Since its proposal, explorations of AFTI in strong-correlated systems are still lacking. In this paper, we show for the first time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-27 Huan Li , Yin Zhong , Yu Liu , Hong-Gang Luo , Hai-Feng Song

We show that a semi-Dirac (SD) system with an inversion symmetry breaking mass exhibits a topological phase transition when irradiated with off-resonant light. Using Floquet theory, we derive the band structure, Chern numbers, phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Vassilios Vargiamidis , P. Vasilopoulos , Neophytos Neophytou

We consider the combined effects of large spin-orbit couplings and a perpendicular magnetic field in a 2D honeycomb fermionic lattice. This system provides an elegant setup to generate versatile spin textures propagating along the edge of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 N. Goldman , W. Beugeling , C. Morais Smith

Haldane's tight-binding model, which describes a Chern insulator in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice, exhibits quantum Hall conductivity without an external magnetic field. Here, we explore an $\alpha -T_{3}$ lattice subjected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Othmane Benhaida , El Hassan Saidi , L. B. Drissi

Topological Kondo insulators are a rare example of an interaction-enabled topological phase of matter in three-dimensional crystals - making them an intriguing but also hard case for theoretical studies. Here, we aim to advance their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Michael Klett , Seulgi Ok , David Riegler , Peter Wölfle , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert

Disorder in atomic positions can induce a topologically nontrivial phase - topological Anderson insulator (TAI) - for transverse electric optical quasimodes of a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of immobile atoms. TAI requires both…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-13 Sergey E. Skipetrov , Pierre Wulles

The photoinduced topological phase transitions and thermal Hall conductivity of a kagome magnet with Heisenberg, Kitaev, and DM interactions under an external magnetic field aligned along the [111] directions is investigated in this study.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-25 Zhengguo Tang , Hongchao Shi , Heng Zhu , Bing Tang , Chaofei Liu

In this work, we theoretically investigate the light-induced topological phases and finite-size crossovers in a paradigmatic quantum spin Hall (QSH) system with high-frequency pumping optics. Taking the HgTe quantum well for an example, our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Fang Qin , Ching Hua Lee , Rui Chen

Exciton-polariton lattices allow to implement topologically protected photonic edge states at optical frequencies. Taking advantage of the interacting character of polaritons, we show that several topological phases, belonging to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 O. Bleu , D. D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

It was discovered in La1-xSrxMnO3(x~1/8) that a field induced phase transition occurs from a ferromagnetic metal(FM) phase to a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) phase. The magnetization shows a sharp jump at the transition field accompanying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 H. Nojiri , K. Kaneko , M. Motokawa , K. Hirota , K. Takahashi , Y. Endoh

We propose a scheme to investigate the topological phase transition and the topological state transfer based on the small optomechanical lattice under the realistic parameters regime. We find that the optomechanical lattice can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Lu Qi , Guo-Li Wang , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

We generalize the topological phase diagram of magnetic topological insulator (TI) thin films in an extended parameter space comprising out-of-plane (OP) and in-plane (IP) exchange fields in the presence of structural inversion asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Kiminori Hattori

Optical control of topology, particularly in the presence of electron correlations, is a fascinating topic with broad scientific and technological impact. Twisted MoTe$_2$ bilayer (tMoTe$_2$) is a newly discovered zero-field fractional…

We study an extended Hubbard model with the nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction on the pyrochlore lattice at half filling. An interaction-driven insulating phase with nontrivial Z_2 invariants emerges at the Hartree-Fock mean-field level…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Moyuru Kurita , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

By using an extended slave-boson method, we draw a global phase diagram summarizing both magnetic phases and paramagnetic (PM) topological insulating phases (TI$_s$) in three-dimensional topological Kondo insulator (TKI). By including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Huan Li , Zhi-Yong Wang , Xiao-Jun Zheng , Yu Liu , Yin Zhong

We investigate Floquet-driven topological phase transitions in an AB-stacked bilayer Haldane lattice with tunable intralayer hopping anisotropy. By combining interlayer hybridization, Haldane flux, and off-resonant circularly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Imtiaz Khan , Muzamil Shah , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong

We propose and model Floquet topological polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, using the interference of frequency detuned coherent fields to provide a time periodic potential. For arbitrarily weak field strength, where the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Rongchun Ge , Wijnand Broer , Timothy C. H. Liew

We show the presence of Floquet-Weyl and Floquet-topological-insulator phases in a stacked two-dimensional ring-network lattice. The Weyl points in the three-dimensional Brillouin zone and Fermi-arc surface states are clearly demonstrated…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-21 Tetsuyuki Ochiai