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We study the Haldane model with nearest-neighbor interactions. This model is physically motivated by the associated ultracold atoms implementation. We show that the topological phase of the interacting model can be characterized by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-31 Emilio Alba , Jiannis Pachos , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

We study strong correlation effects in topological insulators via the Lanczos algorithm, which we utilize to calculate the exact many-particle ground-state wave function and its topological properties. We analyze the simple, noninteracting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-29 Christopher N. Varney , Kai Sun , Marcos Rigol , Victor Galitski

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

We introduce a lattice field theory that describes the transition between a superfluid (SF) and a bosonic topological Mott Insulator (tMI) -- a $U(1)$ symmetry protected topological phase labeled by an integer level $k$ and possessing an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-07 Michael A. DeMarco , Ethan Lake , Xiao-Gang Wen

We study the topological properties of the Haldane and modified Haldane models in $\alpha$-$T_{3}$ lattice. The band structures and phase diagrams of the system are investigated. Individually, each model undergoes a distinct phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 Kok Wai Lee , Pei-Hao Fu , Yee Sin Ang

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have attracted increasing interest as a unique class of topological quantum materials. One distinct property of HOTIs is the crystalline symmetry-imposed topological state at the lower-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-25 Xiaoyin Li , Feng Liu

We study a spinful, time-reversal symmetric lowest Landau level model for a flatband quantum spin Hall system at total filling fraction $\nu_\mathrm{T}=2/3$. Such models are relevant, e.g. for spin-valley locked moir\'e transition metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Roger Brunner , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

The higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), with such as the topological corner states, emerge as a thriving topic in the field of topological physics. But few connections have been found for the HOTIs with the well explored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Zhongbo Yan , Mou Yan , Weiyin Deng , Gang Chen , Zhengyou Liu

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are a novel type of topological phases which supports $d$-dimensional topological boundary states in $D$-dimensional systems with $D-d>1$. In this work, we theoretically predict that interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Jiang Yao , Linhu Li

Recently, a new class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) characterized by an electronic dipole has been theoretically introduced and proposed to host topological corner states. As a novel topological state, it has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Jiang Zeng , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The quantum spin Hall effect has been predicted in twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) owing to the layer-pseudospin magnetic field. Recently, experimental observations have also confirmed such topological states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Qing-Jun Tong , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao , Xing-Tao An

Higher-order topological insulators have triggered great interests because of exhibitions of non-trivial bulk topology on lower-dimensional boundaries like corners and hinges. While such interesting phases have been investigated in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Ya-Jie Wu , Wen He , Ning Li , Zhitong Li , Junpeng Hou

The highly tunable nature of synthetic quantum materials -- both in the solid-state and cold atom contexts -- invites examining which microscopic ingredients aid in the realization of correlated phases of matter such as superconductors.…

Moir\'e materials with flat electronic bands provide a highly controllable quantum system for studies of strong-correlation physics and topology. In particular, angle-aligned heterobilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Yang Xu , Kaifei Kang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

We provide the first unbiased evidence for a higher-order topological Mott insulator in three dimensions by numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations. This insulating phase is adiabatically connected to a third-order topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-26 Yuichi Otsuka , Tsuneya Yoshida , Koji Kudo , Seiji Yunoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Using first-principles calculations within density functional theory, we explore the feasibility of converting ternary half-Heusler compounds into a new class of three-dimensional topological insulators (3DTI). We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Wanxiang Feng , Jun Wen , Wenguang Zhu , Xingqiu Chen , G. Malcolm Stocks , Zhenyu Zhang

Since the discovery of the Harper-Hofstadter model, it has been known that condensed matter systems with periodic modulations can be promoted to non-trivial topological states with emergent gauge fields in higher dimensions. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Kuan-Sen Lin , Barry Bradlyn

We study the interplay between topological and conventional long range order of attractive fermions in a time reversal symmetric Hofstadter lattice using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, focussing on the case of one-third flux quantum per…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-11 Lei Wang , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Matthias Troyer

Search for higher-order topological insulators, characterized by topologically protected gapless boundary states of codimension higher than one, in bosonic systems has attracted growing interest. Here, we establish twisted bilayer honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-16 Chun-Bo Hua , Feiping Xiao , Zheng-Rong Liu , Jin-Hua Sun , Jin-Hua Gao , Chui-Zhen Chen , Qingjun Tong , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Higher-order topological crystalline phases in low-dimensional interacting quantum systems represent a challenging and largely unexplored research topic. Here, we derive a Hamiltonian describing fermions interacting through correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-04 A. Montorsi , U. Bhattacharya , Daniel González-Cuadra , M. Lewenstein , G. Palumbo , L. Barbiero