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The discovery of new topological electronic materials brings a chance to uncover novel physics and plays a key role in observing and controlling various intriguing phenomena. Up to now, many materials have been theoretically proposed and…

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The properties of electrons in magnetically ordered crystals are of interest both from the viewpoint of realizing novel topological phases, such as magnetic Weyl semimetals, and from the applications perspective of creating energy-efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-07 Haruki Watanabe , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topological metals and semimetals (TMs) have recently drawn significant interest. These materials give rise to condensed matter realizations of many important concepts in high-energy physics, leading to wide-ranging protected properties in…

For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the geometrical and topological properties of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-16 Qiong Ma , Adolfo G. Grushin , Kenneth S. Burch

Electronic materials harbor a plethora of exotic quantum phases, ranging from unconventional superconductors to non-Fermi liquids, and, more recently, topological phases of matter. While these quantum phases in integer dimensions are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Sourav Manna , Snehasish Nandy , Bitan Roy

Topological materials can host edge and corner states that are protected from disorder and material imperfections. In particular, the topological edge states of mechanical structures present unmatched opportunities for achieving robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-12 Marcelo Guzman , Xiaofei Guo , Corentin Coulais , David Carpentier , Denis Bartolo

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of quantum materials that exhibit spin momentum locking (SML) of massless Dirac fermions in the surface states. Usually optical methods, such as angle and spin-resolved photoemission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 André Dankert , Johannes Geurs , M. Venkata Kamalakar , Saroj P. Dash

Topological phases of matter have sparked an immense amount of activity in recent decades. Topological materials are classified by topological invariants that act as a non-local order parameter for any symmetry and condition. As a result,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-08 Oded Zilberberg

Topological insulators (TIs) are a recently discovered class of quantum materials that are currently attracting considerable attention. The most interesting aspect of the TIs is, in fact, not that they are bulk insulators but that their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Philip Hofmann

Topological superconductivity is an exotic quantum phenomenon with coupled nontrivial topological order and superconductivity together. A direct idea for producing topological superconductors is to create superconductivity based on the well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Hao Yu , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Wei-Jian Li , Liu-Cheng Chen , Zi-Yu Cao , Di Li , Xiaoying Qin , Chang-De Gong , Xiao-Jia Chen

Topologically protected edge channels show prospects for quantum devices. They have been found experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), weak topological insulators and higher-order topological insulators…

The recent discovery of topological insulator (TI) offers new opportunities for the development of thermoelectrics, because many TIs (like Bi$_2$Te$_3$) are excellent thermoelectric (TE) materials. In this review, we will first describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-26 Yong Xu

The realization of Dirac and Weyl physics in solids has made topological materials one of the main focuses of condensed matter physics. Recently, the topic of topological nodal line semimetals, materials in which Dirac or Weyl-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Shuo-Ying Yang , Hao Yang , Elena Derunova , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Binghai Yan , Mazhar N. Ali

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

The past years have seen rapid progress in the classification of topological materials. These diagnostical methods are increasingly getting explored in the pertinent context of magnetic structures. We report on a general class of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Adrien Bouhon , Gunnar F. Lange , Robert-Jan Slager

The discovery of topological insulators and semimetals has opened up a new perspective to understand materials. Owing to the special band structure and enlarged Berry curvature, the linear responses are strongly enhanced in topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-26 Jonathan Noky , Yan Sun

Topological insulators (TIs) are an emerging class of materials that host highly robust in-gap surface/interface states while maintaining an insulating bulk. While most notable scientific advancements in this field have been focused on TIs…

We analyze the symmetry and topological features of a family of materials closely related to penta-graphene, derived from it by adsorption or substitution of different atoms. Our description is based on a novel approach, called topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-25 Sergio Bravo , J. D. Correa , Leonor Chico , M. Pacheco

Conventional metals, insulators, and semimetals are constrained by fundamental limitations in terms of their thermoelectric performance. Topological materials offer certain features that allow them to circumvent these constraints, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Brian Skinner , Poulomi Chakraborty , Joshua Scales , Joseph P. Heremans

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