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Topological states of matter, first discovered in quantum systems, have opened new avenues for wave manipulation beyond the quantum realm. In elastic media, realizing these topological effects requires identifying lattices that support the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-24 Pegah Azizi , Rahul Dev Kundu , Weichen Li , Kai Sun , Xiaojia Shelly Zhang , Stefano Gonella

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,…

Topological metamaterials exhibit unusual behaviors at their boundaries, such as unidirectional chiral waves, that are protected by a topological feature of their band structure. The ability to tune such a material through a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Noah P. Mitchell , Lisa M. Nash , William T. M. Irvine

In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and bulk topological superconductors. The basic concepts,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-12 Yoichi Ando , Liang Fu

Robustness against small perturbations is a crucial feature of topological properties. This robustness is both a source of theoretical interest and a drive for technological applications, but presents a challenge when looking for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Cyrill Bösch , Tena Dubček , Frank Schindler , Andreas Fichtner , Marc Serra-Garcia

Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and of electronic correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in "moir\'e materials", an emerging class of highly tunable, strongly correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Kevin P. Nuckolls , Ali Yazdani

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari

The studies of topological insulators and topological semimetals have been at frontiers of condensed matter physics and material science. Both classes of materials are characterized by robust surface states created by the topology of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-10 Wei Ning , Zhiqiang Mao

Concepts from quantum topological states of matter have been extensively utilized in the past decade in creating mechanical metamaterials with topologically protected features, such as one-way edge states and topologically polarized…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Haning Xiu , Harry Liu , Andrea Poli , Guangchao Wan , Ellen M. Arruda , Xiaoming Mao , Zi Chen

Topological metamaterials have invaded the mechanical world, demonstrating acoustic cloaking and waveguiding at finite frequencies and variable, tunable elastic response at zero frequency. Zero frequency topological states have previously…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-05 Adrien Saremi , D. Zeb Rocklin

Topological invariants have proved useful for analyzing emergent function as they characterize a property of the entire system, and are insensitive to local details, disorder, and noise. They support boundary states, which reduce the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Evelyn Tang

Active matter encompasses different nonequilibrium systems in which individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale. This review provides an elementary introduction to the role of topology in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-28 Suraj Shankar , Anton Souslov , Mark J. Bowick , M. Cristina Marchetti , Vincenzo Vitelli

Topological phases of matter lie at the heart of physics, connecting elegant mathematical principles to real materials that are believed to shape future electronic and quantum computing technologies. To date, studies in this discipline have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Bin Jiang , Adrien Bouhon , Zhi-Kang Lin , Xiaoxi Zhou , Bo Hou , Feng Li , Robert-Jan Slager , Jian-Hua Jiang

Control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves has reached a new level with the recent understanding of topological states of matter. These metamaterials have the potential to revolutionize many areas in traditional electromagnetic…

Three-dimensional (3D) Weyl and Dirac semimetals garner considerable attention in condensed matter physics due to the exploration of entirely new topological phases and related unconventional surface states. Nodal line and ring semimetals…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-17 Aurelien Merkel , Johan Christensen

Control of the electromagnetic waves in nano-scale structured materials is central to the development of next generation photonic circuits and devices. In this context, hyperbolic metamaterials, where elliptical isofrequency surfaces are…

The past decade's apparent success in predicting and experimentally discovering distinct classes of topological insulators (TIs) and semimetals masks a fundamental shortcoming: out of 200,000 stoichiometric compounds extant in material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Barry Bradlyn , L. Elcoro , Jennifer Cano , M. G. Vergniory , Zhijun Wang , C. Felser , M. I. Aroyo , B. Andrei Bernevig

Topological materials have gained significant attention in condensed matter physics due to their unique electronic and transport properties. Three-dimensional (3D) topological materials are characterized by robust electronic states that are…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-03 Jaime Sánchez-Barriga , Oliver J. Clark , Oliver Rader

Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

Band topology, or global wave-function structure that enforces novel properties in the bulk and on the surface of crystalline materials, is currently under intense investigations for both fundamental interest and its technological promises.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Weiliang Yao , Chenyuan Li , Lichen Wang , Shangjie Xue , Yang Dan , Kazuki Iida , Kazuya Kamazawa , Kangkang Li , Chen Fang , Yuan Li