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Traditional ionic/covalent compound insulators arise from a commensuration between electron count and system volume. On the other hand, conventional topological insulators, outside of quantum hall effect systems, do not typically display…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Abijith Krishnan , Ashvin Vishwanath , Hoi Chun Po

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators in general need to be protected by certain kinds of symmetries other than the presumed $U(1)$ charge conservation. A peculiar exception is the Hopf insulators which are 3D topological insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Dong-Ling Deng , Sheng-Tao Wang , Chao Shen , Lu-Ming Duan

SmB6 is a strongly correlated material that has been attributed as a topological insulator and a Kondo insulator. Recent studies have found the topological surface states and low temperature insulating character to be profoundly robust…

Topological phases of matter are classified based on symmetries, with nonsymmorphic symmetries like glide reflections and screw rotations being of particular importance in the classification. In contrast to extensively studied glide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yu-Liang Tao , Mou Yan , Mian Peng , Qiang Wei , Zhenxing Cui , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Chen , Yong Xu

Herein, we investigate the symmetry-protected toroidal dipole resonances and conditions of their excitation in a new type of electromagnetic metamaterials. These metamaterials are all-dielectric planar periodic arrays of dielectric disks…

The mathematical field of topology has become a framework to describe the low-energy electronic structure of crystalline solids. A typical feature of a bulk insulating three-dimensional topological crystal are conducting two-dimensional…

Topological insulators are a new class of insulators in which a bulk gap for electronic excitations is generated by strong spin orbit coupling. These novel materials are distinguished from ordinary insulators by the presence of gapless…

Recent progress in understanding the topological properties of condensed matter has led to the discovery of time-reversal invariant topological insulators. Because of limitations imposed by nature, topologically non-trivial electronic order…

Magnetic vortices and skyrmions are typically characterized by distinct topological invariants. This work presents a unified approach for the topological classification of these textures, encompassing isolated objects and configurations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Filipp N. Rybakov , Olle Eriksson , Nikolai S. Kiselev

Topological materials (TMs) showcase intriguing physical properties defying expectations based on conventional materials, and hold promise for the development of devices with new functionalities. While several theoretically proposed TMs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

Topological insulators (TIs) are a recently discovered class of materials having insulating bulk electronic states but conducting boundary states distinguished by nontrivial topology. So far, several generations of TIs have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-23 Z. F. Wang , Zheng Liu , Feng Liu

Topological metals possess gapless band structures accompanied with nontrivial edge states. Topological metals are created from the topological insulators by adjusting the magnetic flux. Here we propose the time-reversal symmetry protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 L. C. Xie , H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

We overview recent developments of electronic orderings and associated cross correlations in condensed matter physics based on a complete set of multipole representations (electric, magnetic, electric toroidal, and magnetic toroidal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-06 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose

Topological crystalline superconductors are known to have possible higher-order topology, which results in Majorana modes on $d-2$ or lower-dimensional boundaries. Given the rich possibilities of boundary signatures, it is desirable to have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-08 Yanzhu Chen , Sheng-Jie Huang , Yi-Ting Hsu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Magnetic topological insulators (MnBi$_2$Te$_4$)(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ were anticipated to exhibit magnetic energy gaps while recent spectroscopic studies did not observe them. Thus, magnetism on the surface is under debate. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-31 Hengxin Tan , Daniel Kaplan , Binghai Yan

The classification of electron systems according to their topology has been at the forefront of condensed matter research in recent years. It has been found that systems of the same symmetry, previously thought of as equivalent, may in fact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , Shunji Matsuura , T. Pereg-Barnea

Topology is now securely established as a means to explore and classify electronic states in crystalline solids. This review provides a gentle but firm introduction to topological electronic band structure suitable for new researchers in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-28 Andrew T. Boothroyd

Topological invariants are conventionally known to be responsible for protection of extended states against disorder. A prominent example is the presence of topologically protected extended-states in two-dimensional (2D) quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bohm-Jung Yang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Naoto Nagaosa

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but possess spin-momentum locked metallic surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. The existence of these surface states has been confirmed by angle-resolved photoemission…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-09 Jian Wang , Handong Li , Cui-Zu Chang , Ke He , Joon Sue Lee , Xu-Cun Ma , Nitin Samarth , Qi-Kun Xue , Maohai Xie , M. H. W. Chan

Topological properties of quantum materials are intimately related to symmetry. Here, we tune the magnetic order of the axion insulator candidate EuIn$_2$As$_2$ from its broken-helix ground state to the field-polarized phase by applying an…