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We introduce a simple method to realize and detect photonic topological Chern insulators with one-dimensional circiut quantum electrodynamics arrays. By periodically modulating the couplings of the array, we show that this one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Feng Mei , Jia-Bin You , Wei Nie , R. Fazio , Shi-Liang Zhu , L. C. Kwek

We study intrinsic thermal transport and Floquet-engineered topology in a two-dimensional d wave altermagnetic topological insulator powered by linearly polarized light. We analyze the anomalous Hall, Nernst, and thermal Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ayesha Maryam , Muzamil Shah , Kashif Sabeeh , Reza Asgari

We propose a Chern insulator in a two-dimensional electron system with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling, ferromagnetism, and spin-dependent effective mass. The analytically-obtained topological phase diagrams show the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Rui-An Chang , Ching-Ray Chang

We consider twisted bilayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate, where proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling significantly alters the eight flat bands which occur near the magic angle. The resulting band structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-24 Tianle Wang , Nick Bultinck , Michael P. Zaletel

We theoretically study spin and charge transport induced by a twisted light beam irradiated on a disordered surface of a doped three dimensional topological insulator (TI). We find that various types of spin vortices are imprinted on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Kunitaka Shintani , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yukio Tanaka , Yuki Kawaguchi

We theoretically study the 2D Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in the context of Floquet topological insulators (FTIs). FTIs are systems which undergo topological phase transitions, governed by Chern numbers, as a result of time reversal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Adrian Pena , Bogdan Ostahie , Cristian Radu

Systems with strong light-matter interaction opens up new avenues for studying topological phases of matter. Examples include exciton-polaritons, mixed light-matter quasiparticles, where the topology of the polaritonic band structure arises…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-08 Li He , Jingda Wu , Jicheng Jin , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

With significant advances in classifying and cataloguing topological matter, the focus of topological physics has shifted towards quantum control, particularly the creation and manipulation of topological phases of matter. Floquet…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Fangyang Zhan , Rui Chen , Zhen Ning , Da-Shuai Ma , Ziming Wang , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

We propose a class of photonic Floquet topological insulators based on staggered helical lattices and an efficient numerical method for calculating their Floquet bandstructure. The lattices support anomalous Floquet topological insulator…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Daniel Leykam , M. C. Rechtsman , Y. D. Chong

At a certain "magic" relative twist angle of two graphene sheets it remains a challenge to obtain a detailed description of the proliferation of correlated topological electronic phases and their filling-dependence. We perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-10 Clara N. Breiø , Brian M. Andersen

We propose a defect-to-edge topological quantum quench protocol that can efficiently inject electric charge from defect-core states into a chiral edge current of an induced Chern insulator. The initial state of the system is assumed to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Deepak Iyer , Matthew S. Foster

$Z_{2}$ and Chern topological phases such as newly discovered quantum spin Hall and original quantum Hall states hardly both co--exist in a single material due to their contradictory requirement on the time--reversal symmetry (TRS). We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Shu-Ting Pi , Sergey Savrasov

The geometrically frustrated Kitaev magnets are demonstrated to be fertile playgrounds that allow for the occurrence of exotic phenomena, including topological phases and the thermal Hall effect. Notwithstanding the established consensus…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Zixuan Zou , Qiang Luo

Irradiation of the strong light on the material leads to numerous non-linear effects that are essential to understand the physics of excited states of the system and for optoelectronics. Here, we study the non-linear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Pankaj Bhalla

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted trilayer graphene and the observed superconductivity that is associated with its flat bands at specific angles, we study trilayer graphene under the influence of different forms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 I. A. Assi , J. P. F. LeBlanc , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

Topological theories have established a new set of rules that govern the transport properties in a wide variety of wave-mechanical settings. In a marked departure from the established approaches that induce Floquet topological phases by…

The isospin flavors in condensed matters can be continuously broken, forming various symmetry-broken quantum states. In moir\'e crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be effectively tuned by the twist angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Wenxuan Wang , Yijie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Zihao Huo , Gengdong Zhou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

We consider a periodically $\delta$-kicked Haldane type Chern insulator with the kicking applied in the $\hat{z}$ direction. This is known to behave as an inversion symmetry breaking perturbation, since it introduces a time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Tridev Mishra , Anurag Pallaprolu , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay