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Moir\'e patterns, typically formed by overlaying two layers of two-dimensional materials, exhibit an effective long-range periodicity that depends on the short-range periodicity of each layer and their spatial misalignment. Here, we study…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Fan Feng

Quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions results in fascinating topological phenomena. A prominent example is the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in which a Hall voltage arises in the absence of an applied magnetic field. The AHE…

The tenfold classification provides a powerful framework for organizing topological phases of matter based on symmetry and spatial dimension. However, it does not offer a systematic method for transitioning between classes or engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Amit Goft , Eric Akkermans

Topological defects in ordered states with spontaneously broken symmetry often have unusual physical properties, such as fractional electric charge or a quantised magnetic field-flux, originating from their non-trivial topology. Coupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Sergey Artyukhin , Kris T. Delaney , Nicola A. Spaldin , Maxim Mostovoy

The elastic interaction between kinks (and antikinks) within domain walls plays a pivotal role in shaping the domain structure, and their dynamics. In bulk materials, kinks interact as elastic monopoles, dependent on the distance between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 John J R Scott , Guangming Lu , Brian J. Rodriguez , Ian MacLaren , Ekhard K. H. Salje , Miryam Arredondo

The topological invariants of gapped time reversal invariant lattice superconductors are studied by mapping the superconducting mean field Hamiltonian to a Bloch Hamiltonian. There is a single $Z_2 $ invariant in two dimensions and four…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Rahul Roy

We investigate the existence of higher order topological localized modes in moir\'{e} lattices of bilayer elastic plates. Each plate has a hexagonal array of discrete resonators and one of the plates is rotated an angle ($21.78^\circ$)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Tamanna Akter Jui , Raj Kumar Pal

We present universal features of the topological invariant of p-wave superconducting wires after the inclusion of spatial inhomogeneities. Three classes of distributed potentials are studied, a single- impurity, a commensurate and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-27 Marcos Pérez , Gerardo Martínez

Topological insulators are a new class of materials which have gapped spectra in the bulk, but are accompanied by topologically protected gapless excitations at the surface (edge) of the system. These phenomena have a close relationship…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Taro Kimura

Due to the presence of flat Chern bands, moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers are a platform to realize strongly correlated topological phases of fermions such as fractional Chern insulators. TMDs are also known to host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Paul Froese , Titus Neupert , Glenn Wagner

This paper discusses the topological and transport properties of binary heterostructures of different topological materials. The creation of multilayer devices is an alternative to building synthetic topological materials. By adjusting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 R. Pineda , W. Herrera

We investigate the effect of sliding motion of layers in Moir\'e heterostructures on the electronic state. We show that the sliding Moir\'e heterostructure can generate nontrivial topology characterized by the first and second Chern number…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-05 Ying Su , Shi-Zeng Lin

The discovery of unconventional ferroelectric behavior in twisted bilayers has prompted the consideration of moir\'e heterostructures as polar materials. However, misconceptions about the nature and origin of the observed ferroelectricity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Daniel Bennett

Crystalline symmetries give rise to topological invariants that can distinguish quantum phases of matter. Understanding these in strongly interacting systems is an ongoing research direction requiring non-perturbative methods. Recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Naren Manjunath , Maissam Barkeshli

Multi-phase material are frequently applied in a wide variety of products, as they posses a unique set of properties by combining two or more distinct phases at the level of the microstructure. Although the macroscopic stiffness and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-13 T. W. J. de Geus , R. H. J. Peerlings , M. G. D. Geers

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which relates topological properties of a material in the bulk to the presence of robust modes localized on the edge, is at the core of the now mature field of topological wave physics. More recently, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renaud Cote , Marc Pachebat , Antonin Coutant

There are three important types of structural properties that remain unchanged under the structural transformation of condensed matter physics and chemistry. They are the properties that remain unchanged under the structural periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 John Hongguang Zhang

Periodic Hamiltonians on a three-dimensional (3-D) lattice with a spectral gap not only on the bulk but also on two edges at the common Fermi level are considered. By using K-theory applied for the quarter-plane Toeplitz extension, two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Shin Hayashi

A distinct electronic structure was observed in the single-layer FeSe which shows surprising high temperature superconductivity over 65k. Here we demonstrate that the electronic structure can be explained by the strain effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-29 Ningning Hao , Jiangping Hu

Recent discoveries have spurred the theoretical prediction and experimental realization of novel materials that have topological properties arising from band inversion. Such topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 M. Kotulla , U. Zülicke