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Topological insulators are unique physical structures that are insulators in their bulk, but support currents at their edges which can be unidirectional and topologically protected from scattering on disorder and inhomogeneities. Photonic…

The frictionless, directional propagation of particles at the boundary of topological materials is one of the most striking phenomena in transport. These chiral edge modes lie at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects,…

Topological insulators are materials where current does not flow through the bulk, but along the boundaries, only. They are of particular practical importance, since it is considerably more difficult, by ``conventional'' means, to affect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-20 Stam Nicolis

Topological insulators (TIs) are quantum materials combining insulating bulk properties with conductive surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. Their unique electromagnetic behavior originates from the topological…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sebastián Filipini

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

Many examples from quantum and classical physics are known where topological protection is responsible for the robustness of the dynamics. Less explored is the role of topological protection in the context of classical oscillatory systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-07 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

The discovery of hyperbolic lattice, a discretized regularization of non-Euclidean space with constant negative curvature, has provided an unprecedented platform to extend topological phases of matter from Euclidean to non-Euclidean spaces.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jingming Chen , Linyun Yang , Zhen Gao

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

Topological magnon insulators support chiral edge excitations, whose lack of electric charge makes them notoriously difficult to detect experimentally. We show that relativistic magnetoelectric coupling universally renders chiral edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Robin R. Neumann , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig , Alexander Mook

Although topological materials have recently seen tremendous development, their applications have remained elusive. Simultaneously, there exists considerable interest in pushing the limits of topological materials, including the exploration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sophia R. Sklan , Baowen Li

Edge currents of paramagnetic colloidal particles propagate at the edge between two topologically equivalent magnetic lattices of different lattice constant when the system is driven with periodic modulation loops of an external magnetic…

Topological effects in edge states are clearly visible on short lengths only, thus largely impeding their studies. On larger distances, one may be able to dynamically enhance topological signatures by exploiting the high mobility of edge…

Topological superfluid is an exotic state of quantum matter that possesses a nodeless superfluid gap in the bulk and Andreev edge modes at the boundary of a finite system. Here, we study a multi-orbital superfluid driven by attractive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 Ningning Hao , Huaiming Guo , Ping Zhang

We propose and analyze a general scheme to create chiral topological edge modes within the bulk of two-dimensional engineered quantum systems. Our method is based on the implementation of topological interfaces, designed within the bulk of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-11 N. Goldman , G. Jotzu , M. Messer , F. Görg , R. Desbuquois , T. Esslinger

Bulk-boundary correspondence guarantees the presence of robust, anomalous states on the boundary of topological matter. The edges of a two-dimensional Chern insulator harbor one-dimensional chiral states, which have a conductance $n\,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Oskar Schweizer , Virginia Gali , Adam Y. Chaou , Gal Lemut , Piet W. Brouwer , Maxim Breitkreiz

Topological phases have been explored in various fields in physics such as spintronics, photonics, liquid helium, correlated electron system and cold-atomic system. This leads to the recent foundation of emerging materials such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Ryuichi Shindou , Ryo Matsumoto , Shuichi Murakami , Jun-ichiro Ohe

Flexible mechanical metamaterials possess repeating structural motifs that imbue them with novel, exciting properties including programmability, anomalous elastic moduli and nonlinear and robust response. We address such structures via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-11 Adrien Saremi , Zeb Rocklin

The topological band theory predicts that bulk materials with nontrivial topological phases support topological edge states. This phenomenon is universal for various wave systems and has been widely observed for electromagnetic and acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Hao Hu , Song Han , Yihao Yang , Dongjue Liu , Haoran Xue , Gui-Geng Liu , Zheyu Cheng , Qi Jie Wang , Shuang Zhang , Baile Zhang , Yu Luo

The hallmark of a time-reversal symmetry protected topologically insulating state of matter in two-dimensions (2D) is the existence of chiral edge modes propagating along the perimeter of the system. To date, evidence for such electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Ilya K. Drozdov , A. Alexandradinata , Sangjun Jeon , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Huiwen Ji , R. J. Cava , B. A. Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

Topological phenomena typically govern the behavior of delocalized waves, giving rise to robust transport in electronic, photonic, and mechanical systems. Whether similar principles can directly control the motion of a localized particle,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ethan Andersson , Valeri Frumkin