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The topological phases of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric insulators are classified by a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological invariant. Usually, the invariant is introduced and calculated by exploiting the way time-reversal symmetry acts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nicolas Baù , Antimo Marrazzo

The method of the space dependent basis is applied to study electronic spinors in a crystal. The crystal in the momentum space is described by the Brillouine zone which might contains obstructions or degeneracies for which requires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 D. Schmeltzer

Topological states of matter possess bulk electronic structures categorized by topological invariants and edge/surface states due to the bulk-boundary correspondence. Topological materials hold great potential in the development of…

Topological materials are quantum materials with nontrivial ground-state entanglement that are irremovable so long as certain rules, like invariance under symmetries and the existence of an energy gap, are respected. They showcase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Hoi Chun Po

We introduce a novel class of interaction-enabled topological crystalline insulators in two- and three-dimensional electronic systems, which we call "topological crystalline magnet." It is protected by the product of the time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Haruki Watanabe , Liang Fu

Recent formal classifications of crystalline topological insulators predict that the combination of time-reversal and rotational symmetry gives rise to topological invariants beyond the ones known for other lattice symmetries. Although the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-01 Jans Henke , Mert Kurttutan , Jorrit Kruthoff , Jasper van Wezel

We study non-interacting electrons in disordered one-dimensional materials which exhibit a spectral gap, in each of the ten Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes. We define an appropriate topology on the space of Hamiltonians so that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro

Topological classification in our previous paper [K. Shiozaki and M. Sato, Phys. Rev. B ${\bf 90}$, 165114 (2014)] is extended to nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators and superconductors. Using the twisted equivariant $K$-theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato , Kiyonori Gomi

The combination of magnetism and topology in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) has led to unprecedented advancements of time reversal symmetry-breaking topological quantum physics in the past decade. Compared with the uniform films,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Qi Yao , Yuchen Ji , Peng Chen , Qing-Lin He , Xufeng Kou

Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices and quantum information technology. One of the hallmarks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Ching-Kai Chiu , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu

We discuss a topological classification of insulators and superconductors in the presence of both (non-spatial) discrete symmetries in the Altland-Zirnbauer classification and spatial reflection symmetry in any spatial dimensions. By using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Ching-Kai Chiu , Hong Yao , Shinsei Ryu

The ground state of translationally-invariant insulators comprise bands which can assume topologically distinct structures. There are few known examples where this distinction is enforced by a point-group symmetry alone. In this paper we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-15 A. Alexandradinata , Xi Dai , B. Andrei Bernevig

We present models of topological insulating Hamiltonians exhibiting intrinsic altermagnetic features, protected by combined three-fold or four-fold rotational symmetries with time-reversal. We demonstrate that the spin Chern number serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

Electronic topological insulators are one of the breakthroughs of the 21st century condensed matter physics. So far, the search for a light counterpart of an electronic topological insulator has remained elusive. This is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Mario G. Silveirinha

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

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

We present a method for computing the classification groups of topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of $\mathbb{Z}_2^{\times n}$ point group symmetries, for arbitrary natural numbers $n$. Each symmetry class is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Ken Shiozaki

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

Band insulators appear in a crystalline system only when the filling -- the number of electrons per unit cell and spin projection -- is an integer. At fractional filling, an insulating phase that preserves all symmetries is a Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-07 S. A. Parameswaran , Ari M. Turner , Daniel P. Arovas , Ashvin Vishwanath