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Recent experiments on amorphous materials have established the existence of surface states similar to those of crystalline three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). Amorphous topological insulators are also independently of interest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Siddhant Mal , Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus , Joel E. Moore

The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

Topological insulators are newly discovered materials with the defining property that any boundary cut into such crystal supports spectrum which is immune to the Anderson localization. The present paper summarizes our efforts on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Emil Prodan

Topological insulators (TIs) are emerging materials for next-generation low-power nanoelectronic and spintronic device applications. TIs possess non-trivial spin-momentum locking features in the topological surface states in addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Anamul Md. Hoque , Lars Sjöström , Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Bing Zhao , Saroj P. Dash

Quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHIs), i.e., two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) with a symmetry-protected band inversion, have attracted considerable scientific interest in recent years. In this work, we have computed the…

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess two counter propagating edge channels with op- posite spin direction. Recent experimental progress allowed to create ferromagnetic topological insulators realizing a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Matthias Götte , Michael Joppe , Thomas Dahm

Topological insulators (TIs) are new insulating materials with exotic surface states, where the motion of charge carriers is described by the Dirac equations and their spins are locked in a perpendicular direction to their momentum. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Fei-Xiang Xiang , Xiao-Lin Wang , Shi-Xue Dou

We present a generalization of free fermionic topological insulators that are composed of topological subsystems of differing dimensionality. We specifically focus on topological subsystems of nonzero co-dimension are embedded within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Thomas I. Tuegel , Victor Chua , Taylor L. Hughes

Superconducting topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are predicted to host new topological phases protected by crystalline symmetries, but available materials are insufficiently suitable for surface studies. To induce superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-08 Bryan Rachmilowitz , He Zhao , Hong Li , Alex LaFleur , J. Schneeloch , Ruidan Zhong , Genda Gu , Ilija Zeljkovic

Topological insulators are characterized by a nontrivial band topology driven by the spin-orbit coupling. To fully explore the fundamental science and application of topological insulators, material realization is indispensable. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-30 Di Xiao , Wenguang Zhu , Ying Ran , Naoto Nagaosa , Satoshi Okamoto

Topological Surface States (TSS) represent new types of two dimensional electron systems with novel and unprecedented properties distinct from any quantum Hall-like or spin-Hall effects. Their Z$_2$ topological order can be realized at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , David Hsieh , L. Andrew Wray , Yuqi Xia

Recent years have seen multiple high-throughput studies reveal an immense number of topological materials through use of symmetry indicators. Despite this success, three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) admitting a band-gap larger…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-13 Alexander C. Tyner , Pallab Goswami

Time reversal (T) invariant topological insulator is widely recognized as one of the fundamental discoveries in condensed matter physics, for which the most fascinating hallmark is perhaps a spin based topological protection, the total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Xue-Feng Zhu , Yu-Gui Peng , Xiang-Yuan Yu , Han Jia , Ming Bao , Ya-Xi Shen , De-Gang Zhao

Topological matter is a trending topic in condensed matter: From a fundamental point of view it has introduced new phenomena and tools, and for technological applications, it holds the promise of basic stable quantum computing. Similarly,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-29 Eduardo V. Castro , Raphael de Gail , M. Pilar López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

Two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs) are a highly desired quantum phase but few materials have demonstrated clear signatures of a 2D TI state. It has been predicted that 2D TIs can be created from thin films of three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Alexander C. Lygo , Binghao Guo , Arman Rashidi , Victor Huang , Pablo Cuadros-Romero , Susanne Stemmer

Topological insulators and semimetals as well as unconventional iron-based superconductors have attracted major recent attention in condensed matter physics. Previously, however, little overlap has been identified between these two vibrant…

Ternary semiconducting or metallic half-Heusler compounds with an atomic composition 1:1:1 are widely studied for their flexible electronic properties and functionalities. Recently, a new material property of half-Heusler compounds was…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-28 Binghai Yan , Anne de Visser

Three dimensional topological insulators are bulk insulators with $\mathbf{Z}_2$ topological electronic order that gives rise to conducting light-like surface states. These surface electrons are exceptionally resistant to localization by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Yishuai Xu , Janet Chiu , Lin Miao , Haowei He , Zhanybek Alpichshev , A. Kapitulnik , Rudro R. Biswas , L. Andrew Wray

Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are an important class of materials with applications in electronics, spintronics and quantum computing. With the recent development of truly bulk insulating 3D TIs, it has become possible…

Topological insulators (TI) are materials having an energy band gap in the bulk and conducting helical electronic states on the surface. The helical states are protected by time reversal symmetry thus are expected to be robust against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 Xue-Feng Wang , Yibin Hu , Hong Guo