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In this paper we review some connections recently discovered between topological insulators and certain classes of quantum spin liquids, focusing on two and three spatial dimensions. In two dimensions we show the integer quantum Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-29 Gregory A. Fiete , Victor Chua , Mehdi Kargarian , Rex Lundgren , Andreas Ruegg , Jun Wen , Vladimir Zyuzin

Since topological insulators were theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, more and more attention has been drawn to topological materials which host exotic surface states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Yige Chen , Yuan-Ming Lu , Hae-Young Kee

In electronic topological Dirac semimetals the conduction and valence bands touch at discrete points in the Brillouin zone and form Dirac cones. They are robust against spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and protected by crystal symmetries. They…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-27 S. A. Owerre

A common feature of topological insulators is that they are characterized by topologically invariant quantity such as the Chern number and the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ index. This quantity distinguishes a nontrivial topological system from a trivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-24 S. A. Owerre

We present a comprehensive study of strain-induced topological magnon phase transitions in insulating three-dimensional (3D) topological chiral antiferromagnets on the kagome-lattice. We show that by applying (100) uniaxial strain, 3D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 S. A. Owerre

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

The concepts of Weyl fermions and topological semimetals emerging in three-dimensional momentum space are extensively explored owing to the vast variety of exotic properties that they give rise to. On the other hand, very little is known…

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (tTMDs) provide a highly tunable platform to explore the interplay between strong correlation and topology. Among them, the properties involving the charge degree of freedom have been extensively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Wei-Tao Zhou , Zhao-Yang Dong , Zhao-Long Gu , Jian-Xin Li

Topological band insulators which are dynamically generated by electron-electron interactions have been the- oretically proposed in two and three dimensional lattice models. We present evidence that the two-dimensional version can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 Andreas Rüegg , Gregory A. Fiete

Extending the notion of symmetry protected topological phases to insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) described in terms of opposite magnetic dipole moments associated with the magnetic N$\acute{{\rm{e}}} $el order, we establish a bosonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Kouki Nakata , Se Kwon Kim , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Topological phases of matter have been extensively studied for their intriguing bulk and edge properties. Recently, higher-order topological insulators with boundary states that are two or more dimensions lower than the bulk states, have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiujuan Zhang , Bi-Ye Xie , Hong-Fei Wang , Xiangyuan Xu , Yuan Tian , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Recently, correlated physics such as superconductivity and insulator at commensurate fractional electron fillings has been discovered in several different systems with Moire superlattice and narrow electron bands near charge neutrality.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-12 Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Layered topological insulators, for example, Bi$_2$Se$_3$ are optically hyperbolic materials in a range of THz frequencies. Such materials possess deeply subdiffractional, highly directional collective modes: hyperbolic phonon-polaritons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Jhih-Sheng Wu , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Topological crystalline insulators are new states of matter in which the topological nature of electronic structures arises from crystal symmetries. Here we predict the first material realization of topological crystalline insulator in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-01 Timothy H. Hsieh , Hsin Lin , Junwei Liu , Wenhui Duan , Arun Bansil , Liang Fu

The motion of a spin excitation across topologically non-trivial magnetic order exhibits a deflection that is analogous to the effect of the Lorentz force on an electrically charged particle in an orbital magnetic field. We used polarized…

Condensed matter systems admit topological collective excitations above a trivial ground state, an example being Chern insulators formed by Dirac bosons with a gap at finite energies. However, in contrast to electrons, there is no…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Alexander Mook , Kirill Plekhanov , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have engendered considerable research interest among the condensed matter community owing primarily to their application prospects in quantum computations and spintronics. Many of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-24 Nitish Kumar Gupta , Arun M. Jayannavar

Topological states of quantum matter have inspired both fascinating physics findings and exciting opportunities for applications. Due to the over-complicated structure of, as well as interactions between, real materials, a faithful quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Jia Liu , Jun-Yi Cao , Gang Chen , Zheng-Yuan Xue

The recent demonstrations of electrical manipulation and detection of antiferromagnetic spins have opened up a chapter in the spintronics story. In this article, we review the emerging research field that is exploring synergies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Binghai Yan , Allan H. MacDonald