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A $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to a Wilson fermion on a $2+1$ dimensional cubic lattice is known to exhibit Chern insulator like topological transitions as a function of the the ratio $M/R$ where $M$ is the fermion mass and $R$ is the Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Srimoyee Sen

Recently, the higher-order topological phases from the chiral AIII symmetry classes are characterized by a Z topological invariant known as the multipole chiral numbers, which indicate the number of degenerate zero-energy corner states at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Yuzeng Li , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Topological invariants such as Chern classes are by now a standard way to classify topological phases. Introducing and varying parameters in such systems leads to phase diagrams, where the Chern classes may jump when crossing a critical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Mohamad Mousa , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

The Chern number is a crucial topological invariant for distinguishing the phases of Chern insulators. Here we find that for Chern insulators with inversion symmetry, the Chern number alone is insufficient to fully characterize their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate topological states of two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattices with multi-orbitals. Tight-binding model calculations of a 2D triangular lattice based on $\emph{p}_{x}$ and \emph{p}_{y} orbitals exhibit very interesting doubly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Jiayong Zhang , Bao Zhao , Yang Xue , Tong Zhou , Zhongqin Yang

Topological phases of matter are classified based on symmetries, with nonsymmorphic symmetries like glide reflections and screw rotations being of particular importance in the classification. In contrast to extensively studied glide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yu-Liang Tao , Mou Yan , Mian Peng , Qiang Wei , Zhenxing Cui , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Chen , Yong Xu

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators host topologically protected dissipationless chiral edge states, the number of which is determined by its Chern number. Up to now, the QAH state has been realized in a few magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Dinghui Wang , Huaiqiang Wang , Haijun Zhang

Chern number is a crucial invariant for characterizing topological feature of two-dimensional quantum systems. Real-space Chern number allows us to extract topological properties of systems without involving translational symmetry, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ling Lin , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

In the quantum Hall effect, the density operators at different wave-vectors generally do not commute and give rise to the Girvin MacDonald Plazmann (GMP) algebra with important consequences such as ground-state center of mass degeneracy at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-04 B. Estienne , N. Regnault , B. A. Bernevig

In this work, we supply an engineering solution that paves the way to the implementation of the full classification table of topological insulators with passive acoustic crystals. As an example, we design an acoustic crystal displaying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Wenting Cheng , Emil Prodan , Camelia Prodan

This paper is a survey of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued invariant of topological insulators used in condensed matter physics. The $\mathbb{Z}$-valued topological invariant, which was originally called the TKNN invariant in physics, has now been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Dan Li , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

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

The notion of higher-order topological insulators has endowed materials with topological states beyond the first order. Particularly, a three-dimensional (3D) higher-order topological insulator can host topologically protected 1D hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Qiang Wei , Xuewei Zhang , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Mou Yan , Gang Chen , Zhengyou Liu , Suotang Jia

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are insulating materials whose topological property relies on generic crystalline symmetries. Based on first-principles calculations, we study a three-dimensional (3D) crystal constructed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-03 Youngkuk Kim , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , Andrew M. Rappe

As first demonstrated by the characterization of the quantum Hall effect by the Chern number, topology provides a guiding principle to realize robust properties of condensed matter systems immune to the existence of disorder. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Kazuki Sone , Motohiko Ezawa , Yuto Ashida , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

Local topological markers, topological invariants evaluated by local expectation values, are valuable for characterizing topological phases in materials lacking translation invariance. The Chern marker -- the Chern number expressed in terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Julia D. Hannukainen , Miguel F. Martinez , Jens H. Bardarson , Thomas Klein Kvorning

If an extensive partition in two dimensions yields a gapful entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix, the Berry curvature based on the corresponding entanglement eigenfunction defines the Chern number. We propose such an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Fukui , Y. Hatsugai

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional topological insulating state that has quantized Hall resistance of h/Ce2 and vanishing longitudinal resistance under zero magnetic field, where C is called the Chern number. The…

Topologically protected surface modes of classical waves hold the promise to enable a variety of applications ranging from robust transport of energy to reliable information processing networks. The integer quantum Hall effect has delivered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Valerio Peri , Feng Li , Sebastian D. Huber , Zhengyou Liu

Strong directional disorder in local magnetic moments coupled to a Chern insulator gives rise to topological phases that cannot be continuously connected to the clean limit and are therefore genuinely disorder-driven. We demonstrate this in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Devesh Vaish , Michael Potthoff