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We present models of topological insulating Hamiltonians exhibiting intrinsic altermagnetic features, protected by combined three-fold or four-fold rotational symmetries with time-reversal. We demonstrate that the spin Chern number serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

Recent theories and experiments have suggested that strong spin-orbit coupling effects in certain band insulators can give rise to a new phase of quantum matter, the so-called topological insulator, which can show macroscopic entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Y. Xia , D. Qian , D. Hsieh , L. Wray , A. Pal , H. Lin , A. Bansil , D. Grauer , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Topological nodal superconductors possess gapless low energy excitations that are characterized by point or line nodal Fermi surfaces. In this work, using a coupled wire construction, we study topological nodal superconductors that have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Moon Jip Park , Syed Raza , Matthew J. Gilbert , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

The two-dimensional topological insulating phase has been experimentally discovered in HgTe quantum wells (QWs). The low-energy physics of two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) is described by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang (BHZ) model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 P. Michetti , P. H. Penteado , J. C. Egues , P. Recher

Topological insulators are distinguished from normal insulators by their bulk insulating gap and odd number of surface states connecting the inverted conduction and valence bands and showing Dirac cones at the time-reversal invariant points…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Hosub Jin , Jung-Hwan Song , Arthur J. Freeman

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

Time Reversal Symmetry (TRS) broken topological phases provide gapless surface states protected by topology, regardless of additional internal symmetries, spin or valley degrees of freedom. Despite the numerous demonstrations of 2D…

We consider two-dimensional Chern insulators and time-reversal invariant topological insulators and discuss the effect of perturbations breaking either particle-number conservation or time-reversal symmetry. The appearance of trivial mass…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-18 Stephan Rachel

Topological insulators are novel macroscopic quantum-mechanical phase of matter, which hold promise for realizing some of the most exotic particles in physics as well as application towards spintronics and quantum computation. In all the…

Ultracold Fermi gases of spin-3/2 atoms provide a clean platform to realise SO(5) models of 4-Fermi interactions in the laboratory. By confining the atoms in a two-dimensional Raman lattice, we show how this system can be used as a flexible…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-29 A. Bermudez , D. González-Cuadra , S. Hands

We investigate proximity effects in a correlated heterostructure of a two-dimensional Mott insulator (MI) and a topological insulator (TI) by employing inhomogeneous dynamical mean-field theory. We show that the edge state of the TI induces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Suguru Ueda , Norio Kawakami , Manfred Sigrist

The properties of topological systems are inherently tied to their dimensionality. Higher-dimensional physical systems exhibit topological properties not shared by their lower dimensional counterparts and, in general, offer richer physics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Kai Chen , Matthew Weiner , Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Topological phases of matter have been extensively studied for their intriguing bulk and edge properties. Recently, higher-order topological insulators with boundary states that are two or more dimensions lower than the bulk states, have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiujuan Zhang , Bi-Ye Xie , Hong-Fei Wang , Xiangyuan Xu , Yuan Tian , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Graphene is famous for being a host of 2D Dirac fermions. However, spin-orbit coupling introduces a small gap, so that graphene is formally a quantum spin hall insulator. Here we present symmetry-protected 2D Dirac semimetals, which feature…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-23 Steve M. Young , Charles L. Kane

Topological quantum phase transition in electron gas systems is an enthralling phenomena. This phase transition has a unique property in that it is associated with a quantum phase transition point, which separates different regions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 S. A. Owerre

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 phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

The effect of the strong electron correlation on the topological phase structure of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3D topological insulators is investigated, in terms of lattice gauge theory. The effective model for noninteracting system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-18 Yasufumi Araki , Taro Kimura , Akihiko Sekine , Kentaro Nomura , Takashi Z. Nakano

Two-dimensional Euler insulators are novel kind of systems that host multi-gap topological phases, quantified by a quantised first Euler number in their bulk. Recently, these phases have been experimentally realised in suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Adrien Bouhon , Yan-Qing Zhu , Robert-Jan Slager , Giandomenico Palumbo

We show that topological phases of the Dirac system in arbitral even dimensional space are simulated by $LC$ electric circuits with operational amplifiers. The lattice Hamiltonian for the hypercubic lattice in $2n$ dimensional space is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Motohiko Ezawa