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Chiroptical signals, optical responses sensitive to molecular handedness, are rapidly suppressed by multiple scattering, fundamentally limiting their use in turbid media. Here we show that coupling molecular chirality to the topological…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-18 Igor Meglinski , Anton Sdobnov , Alexander Bykov

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

We systematically investigate how static symmetry-breaking perturbations and dynamic Floquet terms via a polarized light manipulate the topological phase transitions in the two-dimensional quadratic-band-crossing-point (QBCP) materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Wen-Hao Bian , Jing Wang

We investigate the topological properties of photon-dressed energy bands in bilayer $\alpha-T_{3}$ lattices under off-resonant circularly polarized light, focusing on aligned and cyclic stacking configurations. Analytical expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 O. Benhaida , E. H. Saidi , L. B. Drissi , R. Ahl Laamara

We derive the equations of motion of a Domain Wall in a thin-film magnet coupled to the surface states of a Topological Insulator in the presence of of both an electric field along the Domain Wall and a magnetic field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo

Recently, it has been shown how topological phases of matter with crystalline symmetry and $U(1)$ charge conservation can be partially characterized by a set of many-body invariants, the discrete shift $\mathscr{S}_{\text{o}}$ and electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

We propose a memory device based on magnetically doped surfaces of 3D topological insulators. Magnetic information stored on the surface is read out via the quantized Hall effect, which is characterized by a topological invariant.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-09 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

Motivated by the study of stacking faults in weak topological insulators and the observation of magnetic domain walls in MnBi$_{2n}$Te$_{3n+1}$, we explore the topological properties of magnetic domain walls in antiferromagnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gabriele Naselli , Ion Cosma Fulga

We show that a $d$-wave altermagnet can be transformed into a Chern insulator by irradiating it with elliptically polarized light from a high-frequency photon beam. We further explore the intrinsic anomalous thermoelectric and thermal Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Fang Qin , Xiao-Bin Qiang

We predict twisted double bilayer graphene to be a versatile platform for the realization of fractional Chern insulators readily targeted by tuning the gate potential and the twist angle. Remarkably, these topologically ordered states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Zhao Liu , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Emil J. Bergholtz

Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moir\'e Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-22 Xiaoyang Shen , Chonghao Wang , Ruiping Guo , Zhiming Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We propose a route towards creating a metamaterial that behaves as a photonic Chern insulator, through homogenization of an array of gyromagnetic cylinders. We show that such an array can exhibit non-trivial topological effects, including…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-04 Meng Xiao , Shanhui Fan

Exciton-polariton lattices allow to implement topologically protected photonic edge states at optical frequencies. Taking advantage of the interacting character of polaritons, we show that several topological phases, belonging to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 O. Bleu , D. D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

Quantum anomalous Hall insulators are topologically characterized by non-zero integer Chern numbers, the sign of which depends on the direction of the exchange field that breaks time-reversal symmetry. This feature allows the manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Carlo M. Canali

Systems with strong light-matter interaction opens up new avenues for studying topological phases of matter. Examples include exciton-polaritons, mixed light-matter quasiparticles, where the topology of the polaritonic band structure arises…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-08 Li He , Jingda Wu , Jicheng Jin , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

Topological insulators have surface states with a remarkable helical spin structure, with promising prospects for applications in spintronics. Strategies for generating spin polarized currents, such as the use of magnetic contacts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Rodrigo A. Muniz , J. E. Sipe

In the context of $\theta$ electrodynamics we find transverse electromagnetic wave solutions forbidden in Maxwell electrodynamics. Our results attest to new evidence of the topological magnetoelectric effect in topological insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Sebastián Filipini , Mauro Cambiaso

Condensed matter systems admit topological collective excitations above a trivial ground state, an example being Chern insulators formed by Dirac bosons with a gap at finite energies. However, in contrast to electrons, there is no…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Alexander Mook , Kirill Plekhanov , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The intricate interplay between light and matter provides effective tools for manipulating topological phenomena. Here, we theoretically propose and computationally show that circularly polarized light hold the potential to transform the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Cong Zhou , Jian Zhou

We study bulk-boundary correspondences and related surface phenomena stabilized by the second Chern number in three-dimensional insulators driven in adiabatic cycles. Magnetic fields and disorder effects are incorporated in our analysis…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-07 Bryan Leung , Emil Prodan