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Certain band insulators allow for the adiabatic pumping of quantized charge or spin for special time-dependences of the Hamiltonian. These "topological pumps" are closely related to two dimensional topological insulating phases of matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Dganit Meidan , Tobias Micklitz , Piet W. Brouwer

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

We present a general description of topological insulators from the point of view of Dirac equations. The Z_{2} index for the Dirac equation is always zero, and thus the Dirac equation is topologically trivial. After the quadratic B term in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Shun-Qing Shen , Wen-Yu Shan , Hai-Zhou Lu

We study topological properties of density wave states with broken translational symmetry in two-dimensional multi-orbital systems with a particular focus on t$_{2g}$ orbitals in square lattice. Due to distinct symmetry properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Bohm-Jung Yang , Hae-Young Kee

We propose a general principle for constructing higher-order topological (HOT) phases. We argue that if a $D$-dimensional first-order or regular topological phase involves $m$ Hermitian matrices that anti-commute with additional $p-1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Dumitru Calugaru , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

Electronic flat bands have localized Wannier-like orbitals as zero modes. In the Lieb or the kagome models, the localized orbitals satisfy a topological condition that entails two non-contractible loop eigenstates along $x/y$-axis in real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Rui-Heng Liu , Jiangping Hu , Chen Fang

Motivated by the newly-discovered intercalated iron chalcogenide superconductors, we construct a single orbital tight-binding model for topological insulators on the square lattice with a perfect vacancy superstructure. We find that such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Xiao-Yong Feng , Hua Chen , Chao Cao , Jianhui Dai

Topological insulators represent a new class of quantum phase defined by invariant symmetries and spin-orbit coupling that guarantees metallic Dirac excitations at its surface. The discoveries of these states have sparked the hope of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Tanmoy Das , A. V. Balatsky

We study the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model with an additional inversion-symmetry-breaking term. Using the topological Hamiltonian approach, we calculate the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant of the system as function of spin-orbit coupling, Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-14 Robert Triebl , Markus Aichhorn

We highlight a general theory to engineer arbitrary Hermitian tight-binding lattice models in electrical LC circuits, where the lattice sites are replaced by the electrical nodes, connected to its neighbors and to the ground by capacitors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Junkai Dong , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

We show that a large class of two-dimensional spinless fermion models exhibit topological superconducting phases characterized by a non-zero Chern number. More specifically, we consider a generic one-band Hamiltonian of spinless fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-27 Meng Cheng , Kai Sun , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

We investigate topological phenomena in a spatially modulated Dirac-$\delta$ lattice, where the scattering potential varies periodically in space. Changing the potential modulation frequency leads to Hofstadter's butterfly-like energy…

Whereas point-gap topological phases are responsible for exceptional phenomena intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, their realization in quantum materials is still elusive. Here we propose a simple and universal platform of point-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Daichi Nakamura , Kazuya Inaka , Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

The extension of the topological classification of band insulators to topological semimetals gave way to the topology classes of Dirac, Weyl, and nodal line semimetals with their unique Fermi arc and drum head boundary modes. Similarly,…

The topology of an insulator can be defined even when all eigenstates of the system are localized - an extreme case of Anderson insulators that we call ultra-localized. We derive the classification of such ultra-localized insulators in all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Bastien Lapierre , Luka Trifunovic , Titus Neupert , Piet W. Brouwer

Topological phases protected by symmetry can occur in gapped and---surprisingly---in critical systems. We consider non-interacting fermions in one dimension with spinless time-reversal symmetry. It is known that the phases are classified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-18 Nick G. Jones , Ruben Verresen

Topological signals are dynamical variables not only defined on nodes but also on links of a network that are gaining significant attention in non-linear dynamics and topology and have important applications in brain dynamics. Here we show…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-20 Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

We propose an experimental scheme to simulate and detect the properties of time-reversal invariant topological insulators, using cold atoms trapped in one-dimensional bichromatic optical lattices. This system is described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-30 Feng Mei , Shi-Liang Zhu , Zhi-Ming Zhang , C. H. Oh , N. Goldman

We show that the chiral Dirac and Majorana hinge modes in three-dimensional higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) and superconductors (HOTSCs) can be gapped while preserving the protecting $\mathsf{C}_{2n}\mathcal T$ symmetry upon the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-20 Apoorv Tiwari , Ming-Hao Li , B. A. Bernevig , Titus Neupert , S. A. Parameswaran

A transformation is devised to convert any lattice Dirac fermion operator into a Ginsparg-Wilson Dirac fermion operator. For the standard Wilson-Dirac lattice fermion operator, the transformed new operator is local, free of O(a) lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-02-16 Ting-Wai Chiu