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We introduce a coupled-layer construction to describe three-dimensional topological crystalline insulators protected by reflection symmetry. Our approach uses stacks of weakly-coupled two-dimensional Chern insulators to produce topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 I. C. Fulga , N. Avraham , H. Beidenkopf , A. Stern

We discuss a non-fermi liquid gapless metallic surface state of the topological band insulator. It has an odd number of gapless Dirac fermions coupled to a non-compact U(1) gauge field. This can be viewed as a vortex dual to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-25 Chong Wang , T. Senthil

The Dirac electrons occupying the surface states (SSs) of topological insulators (TIs) have been predicted to exhibit many exciting magneto-transport phenomena. Here we report on the first experimental observation of an unconventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 David Rakhmilevich , Fei Wang , Weiwei Zhao , Moses H. W. Chan , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Chaoxing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

Noncollinear and noncoplanar magnetic orders lead to unusual electronic structures and transport properties. We here investigate two types of multiple-Q magnetically ordered states and a topological phase transition between them in two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-10 Satoru Hayami , Yukitoshi Motome

In this study, the pairing mechanism for layered HTS materials based on attraction between electrons from adjacent layers is proposed. Initially, each layer has expanded Fermi sphere owing to ridged geometry. When the two layers are close…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-20 A. Tavkhelidze

Through a theoretical coupled wire model, we construct strongly correlated electronic \emph{integer} quantum Hall states. As a distinguishing feature, these states support electric and thermal Hall transport violating the Wiedemann-Franz…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Pedro L. S. Lopes , V. L. Quito , Bo Han , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

The unique electronic properties of the surface electrons in a topological insulator are protected by time-reversal symmetry. Circularly polarized light naturally breaks time-reversal symmetry, which may lead to an exotic surface quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Y. H. Wang , H. Steinberg , P. Jarillo-Herrero , N. Gedik

Topological insulators and their intriguing edge states can be understood in a single-particle picture and can as such be exhaustively classified. Interactions significantly complicate this picture and can lead to entirely new insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Emil J. Bergholtz , Zhao Liu

Higher-order topological phases of matter have been extensively studied in various areas of physics. While the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example to study topological phases, it has not been explored whether a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

Symmetry breaking in quantum materials is of great importance and can lead to nonreciprocal charge transport. Topological insulators provide a unique platform to study nonreciprocal charge transport due to their surface states, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Chunfeng Li , Rui Wang , Shuai Zhang , Yuyuan Qin , Zhe Ying , Boyuan Wei , Zheng Dai , Fengyi Guo , Wei Chen , Rong Zhang , Baigeng Wang , Xuefeng Wang , Fengqi Song

We study the two-dimensional spatially separated electron-hole system with density imbalance at absolute zero temperature. By means of the mean-field theory, we find that the Fulde-Ferrell state is fairly stabilized by the order parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazuo Yamashita , Kenichi Asano , Takuma Ohashi

We study electronic structures at an interface between a topological insulator and a ferromagnetic insulator by using three-dimensional two-band model. In usual ferromagnetic insulators, the exchange potential is much larger than the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Tetsuro Habe , Yasuhiro Asano

We show that Projected Entangled-Pair States (PEPS) in two spatial dimensions can describe chiral topological states by explicitly constructing a family of such states with a non-trivial Chern number. They are ground states of two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-20 T. B. Wahl , H. -H. Tu , N. Schuch , J. I. Cirac

The topological nature of the Mott-Hubbard state in strongly correlated systems is treated. These systems are described in terms of spin-charge separation, i.e. spinon-holon deconfinement in the gauge field. Analogies with the quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-16 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin

We argue that, at any filling factor, correlated quantum-Hall systems possess a set of chiral boson excitations which are generated by electronically rigid deformations of the system's periphery. We submit that tunneling electrons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Zuelicke , A. H. MacDonald

The observed robustly quantized Hall conductance in quantum Hall systems and Chern insulators (CI) have so far been understood in terms of the topology of isolated systems, which are not coupled to leads. It is assumed that the leads act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Satyam Sinha , Rekha Kumari , Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar , R. Shankar

Topological insulators in the Bi$_2$Se$_3$ family manifest helical Dirac surface states that span the topologically ordered bulk band gap. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy measurements have discovered additional states in the bulk band…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Yishuai Xu , Guodong Jiang , Janet Chiu , Lin Miao , Erica Kotta , Yutan Zhang , Rudro R. Biswas , L. Andrew Wray

Superconductivity has been observed in twisted MoTe2 within the anomalous Hall metal parent state. Key signatures-including a fully spin/valley polarized normal state, anomalous Hall resistivity hysteresis, superconducting phase adjacent to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Nianlong Zou , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ammar Jahin , Tingxin Li , Shi-Zeng Lin , Yang Zhang

Local ultrafast optical excitation of electron-hole pairs in disordered semiconductors provides the possibility to observe experimentally interaction-assisted propagation of correlated quantum particles in a disordered environment. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Thomas , I. Varga , T. Lemm , J. E. Golub , K. Maschke , T. Meier , S. W. Koch

The electrons forming a Cooper pair in a superconductor can be spatially separated preserving their spin entanglement by means of quantum dots coupled to both the superconductor and independent normal leads. We investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Rafael Sánchez , Pablo Burset , Alfredo Levy Yeyati