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Topological classification of quantum solids often (if not always) groups all trivial atomic or normal insulators (NIs) into the same featureless family. As we argue here, this is not necessarily the case always. In particular, when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Sanjib Kumar Das , Sourav Manna , Bitan Roy

We present a method for efficiently enumerating all allowed, topologically distinct, electronic band structures within a given crystal structure. The algorithm applies to crystals with broken time-reversal, particle-hole, and chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jorrit Kruthoff , Jan de Boer , Jasper van Wezel , Charles L. Kane , Robert-Jan Slager

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 quantum chemistry (TQC) classifies the topological phases by real-space invariants in which obstructed atomic insulators belong to the trivial case but sometimes show the feature of higher-order topological insulator. Here, for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-02 Hongyu Chen

Topological electronic flatten bands near or at the Fermi level are a promising avenue towards unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating states. However, the related experiments are mostly limited to the engineered…

Topological Quantum Chemistry and Symmetry-Based Indicators have facilitated large-scale searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy ($E_{F}$). We report the completion of a publicly accessible catalog of stable…

We show that annihilating a pair of Dirac fermions implies a topological transition from the critical semi-metallic phase to an Obstructed Atomic Limit (OAL) insulator phase instead of a trivial insulator. This is shown to happen because of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-03 Santosh Kumar Radha , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

A powerful result of topological band theory is that nontrivial phases manifest obstructions to constructing localized Wannier functions. In Chern insulators, it is impossible to construct Wannier functions that respect translational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Todd Van Mechelen , Robert-Jan Slager , Sathwik Bharadwaj , Zubin Jacob

The Euler class characterizes the topology of two real bands isolated from other bands in two-dimensions. Despite various intriguing topological properties predicted up to now, the candidate real materials hosting electronic Euler bands are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Seung Hun Lee , Yuting Qian , Bohm-Jung Yang

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The search for candidate materials for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has mainly focused on the topological and geometrical structures of single-particle Chern bands. However, there are inherent limitations in approaches that neglect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

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

The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient characteristics of topological states, enabling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Arun Bansil , Hsin Lin , Tanmoy Das

Topological electronic materials are new quantum states of matter hosting novel linear responses in the bulk and anomalous gapless states at the boundary, and are for scientific and applied reasons under intensive research in physics and in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Tiantian Zhang , Yi Jiang , Zhida Song , He Huang , Yuqing He , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Chen Fang

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are classified by topological invariants defined with respect to the crystalline symmetries of their gapped bulk. The bulk-boundary correspondence then links the topological properties of the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Gengming Liu , Violet Workman , Jiho Noh , Yuhao Ma , Taylor L. Hughes , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Gaurav Bahl

The interplay between symmetry and topology leads to a rich variety of electronic topological phases, protecting states such as the topological insulators and Dirac semimetals. Previous results, like the Fu-Kane parity criterion for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-31 Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Haruki Watanabe

The combination of magnetism and topological properties in one material platform is attracting significant attention due to the potential of realizing low power consumption and error-robust electronic devices. Common practice is to start…

Phonons play a crucial role in many properties of solid state systems, such as thermal and electrical conductivity, neutron scattering and associated effects or superconductivity. Hence, it is expected that topological phonons will also…

We propose new topological insulators in hexagonal wurtzite-type binary compounds based on the first principles calculations. It is found that two compounds AgI and AuI are three-dimensional topological insulators with a naturally opened…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-21 X. M. Zhang , R S. Ma , X. C. Liu , E. K. Liu , G. D. Liu , Z. Y. Liu , W. H. Wang , G. H. Wu

Topological materials with unconventional electronic properties have been investigated intensively for both fundamental and practical interests. Thousands of topological materials have been identified by symmetry-based analysis and ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-26 Haosheng Xu , Yadong Jiang , Huan Wang , Jing Wang