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An interesting route to the realization of topological Chern bands in ultracold atomic gases is through the use of optical flux lattices. These models differ from the tight-binding real-space lattice models of Chern insulators that are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Sterdyniak , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nigel R. Cooper , N. Regnault

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

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

We theoretically investigate possible photoinduced topological phase transitions in the organic salt $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$, which possesses a pair of inclined massless Dirac-cone bands between the conduction and valence bands under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-21 Keisuke Kitayama , Yasuhiro Tanaka , Masao Ogata , Masahito Mochizuki

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

A Cm planar photonic material (two-dimensional) including the mirror reflection symmetry is explored where in the Dirac cones appeared at the high-symmetry points of the Brillouin zone boundary. By implementing the specific perturbation on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 J. Hajivandi , H. Kurt

We consider interacting fermions in a magnetic field on a two-dimensional lattice with the periodic boundary conditions. In order to measure the Hall current, we apply an electric potential with a compact support. Then, due to the Lorentz…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Tohru Koma

We show that topological nodal points can emerge in photonic crystal possessing mirror symmetry. The mechanism of generating topological nodal points is discussed in a two-dimensional photonic square lattice, in which four topological nodal…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-22 Wen-Yu He , C. T. Chan

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

Many-body interactions in topological quantum systems can give rise to new phases of matter, which simultaneously exhibit both rich spatial features and topological properties. In this work, we consider spinless fermions on a checkerboard…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-10 Sergi Julià-Farré , Markus Müller , Maciej Lewenstein , Alexandre Dauphin

The classification of topological Floquet systems with time-periodic Hamiltonians transcends that of static systems. For example, spinless fermions in periodically driven two-dimensional lattices are not completely characterized by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-02 F. Nur Ünal , Babak Seradjeh , André Eckardt

We investigate topological characteristics of the photon-dressed band structure of $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice on being driven by off-resonant circularly polarized radiation. We obtain exact analytical expressions of the quasienergy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogs of the quantum Hall states, can potentially manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next-generation topological quantum devices. To date, integer Chern…

The field of topological photonics was initiated with the realization of a Chern insulator phase in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal (PhC) with broken time-reversal symmetry (T), hosting chiral edge states that are topologically protected…

The hallmark feature of topological insulators renders edge transport virtually impervious to scattering at defects and lattice disorder. In our work, we experimentally demonstrate a topological system, using a photonic platform, in which…

Pumping graphene with circularly polarized light is the archetype of light-tailoring topological bands. Realizing the induced Floquet-Chern insulator state and tracing clear experimental manifestions has been a challenge, and it has become…

Light-dressed materials hold enormous potential for generating new electronic properties. The band structure resulting from light-dressing can exhibit starkly different quantum and topological phenomena. So far, optical control of charge…

Photonic platforms invariant under parity ($\mathcal{P}$), time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$), and duality ($\mathcal{D}$) can support topological phases analogous to those found in time-reversal invariant ${\mathbb{Z}_2}$ electronic systems…

Topological phases with broken time-reversal symmetry and Chern number |C|>=2 are of fundamental interest, but it remains unclear how to engineer the desired topological Hamiltonian within the paradigm of spin-orbit-coupled particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-09 Abhijeet Alase , David L. Feder

We predict novel topological phases with broken time-reversal symmetry supporting the coexistence of opposite chiral edge states, which are fundamentally different from the photonic spin-Hall, valley-Hall, and higher-order topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 H. C. Wu , H. S. Xu , L. C. Xie , L. Jin