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Topological insulators (TIs) and topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are materials with unconventional electronic properties, making their discovery highly valuable for practical applications. However, such materials, particularly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Haosheng Xu , Dongheng Qian , Zhixuan Liu , Yadong Jiang , Jing Wang

The machine learning based approaches efficiently solve the goal of searching the best materials candidate for the targeted properties. The search for topological materials using traditional first-principles and symmetry-based methods often…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-23 Zodinpuia Ralte , Ramesh Kumar , Mukhtiyar Singh

We present a high-accuracy procedure for electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated materials. To address limitations in current electronic structure methods, we employ density functional theory in combination with the…

We present a scheme to realize the chiral topological excitonic insulator in semiconductor heterostructures which can be experimentally fabricated with a coupled quantum well adjacent to twoferromagnetic insulating films. The different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang , Jian Li , Zhigang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yupeng Wang

The discovery of topological phases of matter and topological boundary states had tremendous impact on condensed matter physics and photonics, where topological phases are defined via energy bands, giving rise to topological band theory.…

Development of next-generation electronic devices for applications call for the discovery of quantum materials hosting novel electronic, magnetic, and topological properties. Traditional electronic structure methods require expensive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Hexin Bai , Peng Chu , Jeng-Yuan Tsai , Nathan Wilson , Xiaofeng Qian , Qimin Yan , Haibin Ling

Impurities embedded in electronic systems induce bound states which under certain circumstances can hybridize and lead to impurity bands. Doping of insulators with impurities has been identified as a promising route towards engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Emma L. Minarelli , Kim Pöyhönen , Gerwin A. R. van Dalum , Teemu Ojanen , Lars Fritz

The discovery of topological quantum states marks a new chapter in both condensed matter physics and materials sciences. By analogy to spin electronic system, topological concepts have been extended into phonons, boosting the birth of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-03 Jiangxu Li , Jiaxi Liu , Stanley A. Baronett , Ronghan Li , Lei Wang , Qiang Zhu , Xing-Qiu Chen

The recent discovery of topological insulators has revived interest in the topological properties of insulating band structures. In this work, we extend the topological classification of insulating band structures to include certain point…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Liang Fu

Topological flat bands in two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e materials have emerged as promising platforms for exploring the interplay between topology and correlation effects. However, realistic calculations of moir\'e band topology using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yunzhe Liu , Ethan Angerhofer , Kaijie Yang , Chao-Xing Liu , Jiabin Yu

The interplay between band topology and magnetic order plays a key role in quantum states of matter. MnBi2Te4, a van der Waals magnet, has recently emerged as an exciting platform for exploring Chern insulator physics. Its layered…

Despite the rapid progress in understanding the first intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$, its electronic structure remains a topic under debates. Here we perform a thorough spectroscopic investigation into the…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have wide applications in superconductors, quantum, and topological materials. However, their rational design is not well established, and currently less than 6,000 experimentally synthesized 2D materials have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Rongzhi Dong , Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Machine Learning (ML) plays an increasingly important role in the discovery and design of new materials. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of ML for materials research using hard-magnetic phases as an illustrative case. We build…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-04 Johannes J. Möller , Wolfgang Körner , Georg Krugel , Daniel F. Urban , Christian Elsässer

The Materials Project crystal structure database has been searched for materials possessing layered motifs in their crystal structures using a topology-scaling algorithm. The algorithm identifies and measures the sizes of bonded atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-08 Michael Ashton , Joshua Paul , Susan B. Sinnott , Richard G. Hennig

Magnetic materials have been applied in a large variety of technologies, from data storage to quantum devices. The development of 2D materials has opened new arenas for magnetic compounds, even when classical theories discourage their…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-11 Carlos Mera Acosta , Elton Ogoshi , Jose Antonio Souza , Gustavo M. Dalpian

Topological Surface States (TSS) represent new types of two dimensional electron systems with novel and unprecedented properties distinct from any quantum Hall-like or spin-Hall effects. Their Z$_2$ topological order can be realized at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , David Hsieh , L. Andrew Wray , Yuqi Xia

A key feature of topological insulators is the robustness of the electron energy spectrum. At a surface of a topological insulator, Dirac point is protected by the characteristic symmetry of the system. The breaking of the symmetry opens a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Stagraczynski , L. Chotorlishvili , V. K. Dugaev , C. -L. Jia , A. Ernst , A. Komnik , J. Berakdar

Technologies that function at room temperature often require magnets with a high Curie temperature, $T_\mathrm{C}$, and can be improved with better materials. Discovering magnetic materials with a substantial $T_\mathrm{C}$ is challenging…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Joshua F. Belot , Valentin Taufour , Stefano Sanvito , Gus L. W. Hart