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Recent years have seen multiple high-throughput studies reveal an immense number of topological materials through use of symmetry indicators. Despite this success, three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) admitting a band-gap larger…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-13 Alexander C. Tyner , Pallab Goswami

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which links a bulk topological property of a material to the existence of robust boundary states, is a hallmark of topological insulators. However, in crystalline topological materials the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Sasha S. Yamada , Tianhe Li , Mao Lin , Christopher W. Peterson , Taylor L. Hughes , Gaurav Bahl

We discuss the relation between bulk topological invariants and the spectrum of surface states in three dimensional non-interacting topological insulators. By studying particular models, and considering general boundary conditions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Isaev , Y. H. Moon , G. Ortiz

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Su-Yang Xu , Y. Xia , L. A. Wray , D. Qian , Shuang Jia , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , J. Osterwalder , B. Slomski , H. Lin , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Topological insulators in three dimensions are nonmagnetic insulators that possess metallic surface states as a consequence of the nontrivial topology of electronic wavefunctions in the bulk of the material. They are the first known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-26 M. Zahid Hasan , Joel E. Moore

Topological insulators exhibit boundary states protected by bulk band topology, a principle first established in quantum systems and later extended to classical waves, including phononics. Conventionally, an $n$-dimensional bulk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Joel R. Pyfrom , Kai Sun , Jihong A. Ma

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

The mathematical field of topology has become a framework to describe the low-energy electronic structure of crystalline solids. A typical feature of a bulk insulating three-dimensional topological crystal are conducting two-dimensional…

While topological phases have been extensively studied in amorphous systems in recent years, it remains unclear whether the random nature of amorphous materials can give rise to higher-order topological phases that have no crystalline…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-15 Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

The surface states of the three dimensional (3D) Topological Insulators are described by two-dimensional (2D) massless dirac equation. A gate voltage induced one dimensional potential barrier on such surface creates a discrete bound state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Puja Mondal , Sankalpa Ghosh

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

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

Three dimensional topological insulators are bulk insulators with $\mathbf{Z}_2$ topological electronic order that gives rise to conducting light-like surface states. These surface electrons are exceptionally resistant to localization by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Yishuai Xu , Janet Chiu , Lin Miao , Haowei He , Zhanybek Alpichshev , A. Kapitulnik , Rudro R. Biswas , L. Andrew Wray

Topological insulators are bulk semiconductors that manifest in-gap massless Dirac surface states due to the topological bulk-boundary correspondence principle [1-3]. These surface states have been a subject of tremendous ongoing interest,…

Topological phases, including the conventional first-order and higher-order topological insulators and semimetals, have emerged as a thriving topic in the fields of condensed-matter physics and material science. Usually, a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yating Yang , Jiuyang Lu , Mou Yan , Xueqin Huang , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

Three dimensional (3D) third-order topological insulators (TIs) have zero-dimensional (0D) corner states, which are three dimensions lower than bulk. Here we investigate the third-order TIs on breathing pyrochlore lattices with p-orbital…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jiyu Wang , Ying Chen , Xiancong Lu

A topological boundary can be formed at the interface between a trivial and a topological insulator. The difference in the topological index across the junction leads to robust gapless surface states. Optical studies of these states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Diaz-Fernandez , N. del Valle , E. Diaz , F. Dominguez-Adame

Three dimensional topological insulators embody a newly discovered state of matter characterized by conducting spin-momentum locked surface states that span the bulk band gap as demonstrated via spin-resolved ARPES measurements . This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 L. Andrew Wray , Su-Yang Xu , Yuqi Xia , David Hsieh , Alexei V. Fedorov , Hsin Lin , Arun Bansil , Yew San Hor , Robert J. Cava , M. Zahid Hasan

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

We prove the existence of higher-order topological insulators in: {\it i}) fourfold rotoinversion invariant bulk crystals, and {\it ii}) inversion-symmetric systems with or without an additional three-fold rotation symmetry. These states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Guido van Miert , Carmine Ortix