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The organization of the electrons in the ground state is classified by means of topological invariants, defined as global properties of the wavefunction. Here we address the Chern number of a two-dimensional insulator and we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-23 Raffaello Bianco , Raffaele Resta

We study the thermal transport in two-dimensional systems with a nontrivial Berry curvature texture. The physical realizations are many: for a sake of definiteness we consider undoped graphene gapped by the presence of an aligned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Alessandro Principi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Alex Levchenko

Charge carriers in magic angle graphene come in eight flavors described by a combination of their spin, valley, and sublattice polarizations. When the inversion and time reversal symmetries are broken by the substrate or by strong…

From the low-energy model, the topological field theory indicates that the surface magnetization can open a surface gap in 3D topological insulators (TIs), resulting in a half-quantized Hall conductance. Here by employing the realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

In this work, we use the thin-layer quantization procedure to study the physical implications due to curvature effects on a quantum dot in the presence of an external magnetic field. Among the various physical implications due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Luis Fernando C. Pereira , Fabiano M. Andrade , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

We studied a two-band magnon insulating model whose geometry is that of a modified Lieb lattice in which one of the sites was removed. Anisotropic ferromagnetic exchange interactions exist between the three nearest neighbors, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 P. G. de Oliveira , A. S. T. Pires

We investigate relations between topology and the quantum metric of two-dimensional Chern insulators. The quantum metric is the Riemannian metric defined on a parameter space induced from quantum states. Similar to the Berry curvature, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Tomoki Ozawa , Bruno Mera

We compute the second-harmonic response of two-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals subjected to an external in-plane magnetic field. The quantum kinetic equation for the Wigner distribution function is derived and then solved to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Maxim Dzero , Maxim Khodas , Alex Levchenko , Vladyslav Kozii

Doping Bi$_2$Se$_3$ by magnetic ions represents an interesting problem since it may break the time reversal symmetry needed to maintain the topological insulator character. Mn dopants in Bi$_2$Se$_3$ represent one of the most studied…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-26 K. Carva , P. Baláž , J. Šebesta , I. Turek , J. Kudrnovský , F. Máca , V. Drchal , J. Chico , V. Sechovský , J. Honolka

The connection between topology and nonreciprocity in photonic systems is reviewed. Topological properties such as Chern number, and momentum-space properties such as Berry phase and Berry connection, are used to explain back-scattering…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-18 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George W. Hanson

We investigate topological states of two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattices with multi-orbitals. Tight-binding model calculations of a 2D triangular lattice based on $\emph{p}_{x}$ and \emph{p}_{y} orbitals exhibit very interesting doubly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Jiayong Zhang , Bao Zhao , Yang Xue , Tong Zhou , Zhongqin Yang

The quantum anomalous Hall effect is a intriguing topological nontrivial phase arising from spontaneous magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. However, the tremendously harsh realizing requirements of the quantum anomalous Hall effects in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Ping Li , Tian-Yi Cai

We study the effect of diluting a two-dimensional ferromagnetic insulator hosting a topological phase in the clean limit. By considering the ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the honeycomb lattice with second nearest-neighbor…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-19 Miguel S. Oliveira , T. V. C. Antão , Eduardo V. Castro , Nuno Peres

The Berry curvature dipole is well-known to cause Hall conductivity. This study expands on previous results to demonstrate how two- and three-dimensional materials react under a tilted magnetic field in the linear and nonlinear regimes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Narjes Kheirabadi , YuanDong Wang

The effects of Hubbard-type on-site interactions on the BHZ model is studied in this paper for model parameters appropriate for the HgTe/CdTe quantum well. Within a simple mean field theory we search for plausible magnetic instabilities in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-22 Zewei Chen , Tai Kai Ng

We explore spin dynamics in Cu(1,3-bdc), a quasi-2D topological magnon insulator. The results show that the thermal evolution of Land\'e $g$-factor ($g$) is anisotropic: $g_\textrm{in-plane}$ reduces while $g_\textrm{out-plane}$ increases…

With the help of the Berry curvature and the first Chern number $($$\textit{C}_1$$)$, we both analytically and numerically investigate and thus simulate artificial magnetic monopoles formed in parameter space of the Hamiltonian of a driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ming-Feng Chen , Huai-Zhi Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang

Chirality is a fundamental organizing principle of correlated and topological states. In quantum magnets, chirality arises from the geometric twisting of spins and serves as an emergent source of Berry curvature and quantum metrics.…

Chiral magnetism is a fascinating quantum phenomena that has been found in low-dimensional magnetic materials. It is not only interesting for understanding the concept of chirality, but also important for potential applications in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-12 Bo Liu , Peng Zhang , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

The relativistic Dirac equation covers the fundamentals of electronic phenomena in solids and as such it effectively describes the electronic states of the topological insulators like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$. Topological insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-24 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa