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Robustness against disorder and defects is a pivotal advantage of topological systems, manifested by absence of electronic backscattering in the quantum Hall and spin-Hall effects, and unidirectional waveguiding in their classical analogs.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently, identifying band topologies has become an important, but…

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

Coherent control via periodic modulation, also known as Floquet engineering, has emerged as a powerful experimental method for the realization of novel quantum systems with exotic properties. In particular, it has been employed to study…

Quantum Hall systems are characterized by the quantization of the Hall conductance -- a bulk property rooted in the topological structure of the underlying quantum states. In condensed matter devices, material imperfections hinder a direct…

We extend the theory of dipole moments in crystalline insulators to higher multipole moments. In this paper, we expand in great detail the theory presented in Ref. 1, and extend it to cover associated topological pumping phenomena, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes

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

We prove a general theorem on the relation between the bulk topological quantum number and the edge states in two dimensional insulators. It is shown that whenever there is a topological order in bulk, characterized by a non-vanishing Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Liang Qi , Yong-Shi Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Point-gap topological phases of non-Hermitian systems exhibit exotic boundary states that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. Here, we develop classification of second-order point-gap topological phases protected by reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yutaro Tanaka , Daichi Nakamura , Ryo Okugawa , Kohei Kawabata

The study of topological band insulators has revealed fascinating phases characterized by band topology indices and anomalous boundary modes protected by global symmetries. In strongly correlated systems, where the traditional notion of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Xu , Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang

We present a series of models of three-dimensional rotation-symmetric fragile topological insulators in class AI (time-reversal symmetric and spin-orbit-free systems), which have gapless surface states protected by time-reversal ($T$) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Shingo Kobayashi , Akira Furusaki

Presence of entangled states is explicitly shown in Topological insulator (TI) $Bi_2Te_3$. The surface and bulk state are found to have the different structures of entanglement. The surface states live as maximally entangled states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Anvesh Raja Kovela , Anant Vijay Verma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Bhavesh Chauhan

Non-Hermitian systems as theoretical models of open or dissipative systems exhibit rich novel physical properties and fundamental issues in condensed matter physics.We propose a generalized local-global correspondence between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Annan Fan , Shi-Dong Liang

The role of the domain geometry for the statistical mechanics of 2D Euler flows is investigated. It is shown that for a spherical domain, there exists invariant subspaces in phase space which yield additional angular momentum, energy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-13 Corentin Herbert

Higher-order topological insulators not only exhibit exotic bulk-boundary correspondence principle, but also have an important application in quantum computing. However, they have never been achieved in quantum walk. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ya Meng , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia

The studies of topological phases of matter have been extended from condensed matter physics to photonic systems, resulting in fascinating designs of robust photonic devices. Recently, higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Bi-Ye Xie , Guang-Xu Su , Hong-Fei Wang , Hai Su , Xiao-Peng Shen , Peng Zhan , Ming-Hui Lu , Zhen-Lin Wang , Yan-Feng Chen

We propose an unconventional bulk-edge correspondence for two-dimensional Stiefel-Whitney insulators and Euler insulators, which are topological insulators protected by the $PT$ symmetry. We find that, although the energy spectrum under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Ryo Takahashi , Tomoki Ozawa

In finite-dimensional dynamical systems, stochastic stability provides the selection of physical relevant measures from the myriad invariant measures of conservative systems. That this might also apply to infinite-dimensional systems is the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-12 F. Cipriano , H. Ouerdiane , R. Vilela Mendes

The most general gauge-invariant marginal deformation of four-dimensional abelian BF-type topological field theory is studied. It is shown that the deformed quantum field theory is topological and that its observables compute, in addition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 Richard J. Szabo

The geometry and topology of quantum systems have deep connections to quantum dynamics. In this paper, I show how to measure the non-Abelian Berry curvature and its related topological invariant, the second Chern number, using dynamical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 Michael Kolodrubetz