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Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

A topological measure characterizing symmetry-protected topological phases in one-dimensional open fermionic systems is proposed. It is built upon the kinematic approach to the geometric phase of mixed states and facilitates the extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Da-Jian Zhang , Jiangbin Gong

Topology, a well-established concept in mathematics, has nowadays become essential to describe condensed matter. At its core are chiral electron states on the bulk, surfaces and edges of the condensed matter systems, in which spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Claudia Felser , Johannes Gooth

This article examines how the physical presence of field energy and particulate matter could influence the topological properties of space time. The theory is developed in terms of vector and matrix equations of exterior differential forms.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kiehn

We propose and investigate a new algorithm for quantifying the topological properties of cosmological density fluctuations. We first motivate this algorithm by drawing a formal distinction between two definitions of relevant topological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Coles , Andrew G. Davies , Russell C. Pearson

Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave functions. This review presents a pedagogical account on…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Yoichi Ando

Many systems in nature and the synthetic world involve ordered arrangements of units on two-dimensional surfaces. We review here the fundamental role payed by both the topology of the underlying surface and its detailed curvature. Topology…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-31 Mark J. Bowick , Luca Giomi

Topology is a powerful tool for categorizing magnetization textures by defining a topological index in both two-dimensional (2D) systems, such as thin films or curved surfaces, and in 3D bulk systems. In the emerging field of 3D…

We discuss here geometric structures of condensed matters by means of a fundamental topological method. Any geometric pattern can be universally represented by a decomposition space of a topological space consisting of the infinite product…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shousuke Ohmori , Yoshihiro Yamazaki , Tomoyuki Yamamoto , Akihiko Kitada

The holographic duality allows to construct and study models of strongly coupled quantum matter via dual gravitational theories. In general such models are characterized by the absence of quasiparticles, hydrodynamic behavior and Planckian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

We discuss physical properties of `integer' topological phases of bosons in D=3+1 dimensions, protected by internal symmetries like time reversal and/or charge conservation. These phases invoke interactions in a fundamental way but do not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

Quantum phase transitions that take place between two distinct topological phases remain an unexplored area for the applicability of the fidelity approach. Here, we apply this method to spin systems in two and three dimensions and show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-04 Silvano Garnerone , Damian Abasto , Stephan Haas , Paolo Zanardi

Topology describes global quantities invariant under continuous deformations, such as the number of elementary excitations at a phase boundary, without detailing specifics. Conversely, differential laws are needed to understand the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-05 Pasquale Marra , Angela Nigro

Topological quantum materials have emerged as a frontier in condensed matter physics as well as in materials science, with intriguing electronic states that are robust to perturbations. Among the diverse structural motifs, kagome, chiral,…

There are three fundamental physical processes that gives rise to the morphology of a surface: deposition, surface diffusion and desorption. The characteristics of the interfaces generated by the combination of deposition and surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan R. Sanchez

Carbon has numerous one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) allotropic structures. The study of carbon materials has been a major focus of material science and condensed matter physics. Previous studies have…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie , Xiaohong Yan , Marvin L. Cohen , Shengbai Zhang

The topological properties of a material depend on its symmetries, parameters, and spatial dimension. Changes in these properties due to parameter and symmetry variations can be understood by computing the corresponding topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Topological defects (TDs) are crucial for understanding important physical properties of crystalline materials including mechanical failure, ion transport, and two-dimensional melting. This concept has not translated to disordered materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Matteo Baggioli , Michael L. Falk , Walter Kob

This paper is second in the series, following Pranav et al. (2019), focused on the characterization of geometric and topological properties of 3D Gaussian random fields. We focus on the formalism of persistent homology, the mainstay of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Pratyush Pranav