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Periodic stacking of topologically trivial and non-trivial layers with opposite symmetry of the valence and conduction bands induces topological interface states that, in the strong coupling limit, hybridize both across the topological and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 G. Krizman , B. A. Assaf , G. Bauer , G. Springholz , L. A. de Vaulchier , Y. Guldner

We use low-depth quantum circuits, a specific type of tensor networks, to classify two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological many-body localized phases. For (anti-)unitary on-site symmetries we show that the (generalized) third…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-29 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

The Landau description of phase transitions relies on the identification of a local order parameter that indicates the onset of a symmetry-breaking phase. In contrast, topological phase transitions evade this paradigm and, as a result, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva , Mathias S. Scheurer

Revealing the structural features of a complex system from the observed collective dynamics is a fundamental problem in network science. In order to compute the various topological descriptors commonly used to characterize the structure of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-02-16 Sebastian Raimondo , Manlio De Domenico

Topological superconductors are exotic phases of matter featuring robust surface states that could be leveraged for topological quantum computation. A useful guiding principle for the search of topological superconductors is to relate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-05 Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po , Haruki Watanabe

Topology has emerged as a fundamental property of many systems, manifesting in cosmology, condensed matter, high-energy physics and waves. Despite the rich textures, the topology has largely been limited to low dimensional systems that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Robert de Mello Koch , Pedro Ornelas , Neelan Gounden , Bo-Qiang Lu , Isaac Nape , Andrew Forbes

We investigate a family of quasiperiodic continuous elastic beams, the topological properties of their vibrational spectra, and their relation to the existence of localized modes. We specifically consider beams featuring arrays of ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-04 Raj Kumar Pal , Matheus I. N. Rosa , Massimo Ruzzene

We study fourfold rotation invariant gapped topological systems with time-reversal symmetry in two and three dimensions ($d=2,3$). We show that in both cases nontrivial topology is manifested by the presence of the $(d-2)$-dimensional edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Zhida Song , Zhong Fang , Chen Fang

We study phase diagrams of charge-conserving `class A' non-interacting fermions, focusing on the trivial phase in various dimensions. Such phases are usually termed `featureless' to distinguish them from those others with either…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Sashank Singam , Nick G. Jones , Abhishodh Prakash

Topological nodal-line semimetals are characterized by one-dimensional lines of band crossing in the Brillouin zone. In contrast to nodal points, nodal lines can be in topologically nontrivial configurations. In this paper, we study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 Ren Bi , Zhongbo Yan , Ling Lu , Zhong Wang

We report the existence of topologically charged nodal surface, a band degeneracy on a two-dimensional surface in momentum space that is topologically charged. We develop a Hamiltonian for such charged nodal surface, and show that such a…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-08 Meng Xiao , Shanhui Fan

Considering a $d$-wave superconductor being in proximity to a two-dimensional Weyl model, a topological superconductor with gapless edge states may be realized. We here demonstrate that the system can become topologically trivial when an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-02 Tao Zhou , Yi Gao , Z. D. Wang

We propose to model the topology of three-dimensional (3D) continua by Yin sets, regular open semianalytic sets with bounded boundary. Our model differs from manifold-based models in that singular points of a 3D continuum, i.e., boundary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Hao Liang , Yunhao Qiu , Yan Tan , Qinghai Zhang

The discovery of Weyl semimetals represents a significant advance in topological band theory. They paradigmatically enlarged the classification of topological materials to gapless systems while simultaneously providing experimental evidence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 P. Rüßmann , A. P. Weber , F. Glott , N. Xu , M. Fanciulli , S. Muff , A. Magrez , P. Bugnon , H. Berger , M. Bode , J. H. Dil , S. Blügel , P. Mavropoulos , P. Sessi

While tremendous research has revealed that symmetry enriches topological phases of matter, more general principles that protect topological phases have yet to be explored. In this Letter, we elucidate the roles of subspaces in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Kenji Shimomura , Ryo Takami , Daichi Nakamura , Masatoshi Sato

We examine the interplay of symmetry and topological order in $2+1$ dimensional topological phases of matter. We present a definition of the \it topological symmetry \rm group, which characterizes the symmetry of the emergent topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-16 Maissam Barkeshli , Parsa Bonderson , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

Novel fermionic quasiparticles with integer pseudospins in some energy bands, such as pseudospin-1 triple-point fermions, recently attract increasing interest since they are beyond the conventional spin-$1/2$ Dirac and Weyl counterparts. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-27 Xue-Ying Mai , Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhi Li , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

Although two-dimensional periodic structures have functioned as the primary platform for exploring topological phenomena, recent advances have substantially expanded this research boundary to include more intricate, aperiodic structures:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Sunkyu Yu , Xianji Piao , Namkyoo Park

Critical edge states appear at the bulk gap closing points of topological transitions. Their emergence signify the existence of topologically nontrivial critical points, whose descriptions fall outside the scope of gapped topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Longwen Zhou , Rujia Jing , Shenlin Wu