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Using a prototype model for proximity induced superconductivity on a bilayer square lattice, we show that interlayer tunneling can drive change in topology of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle bands. Starting with topologically trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-15 Navketan Batra , Swagatam Nayak , Sanjeev Kumar

Fragile topology, akin to twisted bilayer graphene and the exotic phases therein, is a notable topological class with intriguing properties. However, due to its unique nature and the lack of bulk-edge correspondence, the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Yating Yang , Zhida Song , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

Topological edge states in systems of two (or more) dimensions offer scattering-free transport, exhibiting robustness to inhomogeneities and disorder. In a different domain, time-modulated systems, such as photonic time crystals (PTCs),…

Combining graphene with other novel layered materials is a possible way for engineering the band structure of charge carriers. Strong spin-orbit coupling in BiTeX compounds and the recent fabrication of a single layer of BiTeI points…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-17 Zoltán Tajkov , Dávid Visontai , László Oroszlány , János Koltai

Transient optical heating provides an efficient way to trigger phase transitions in naturally occurring media through ultrashort laser pulse irradiation. A similar approach could be used to induce topological phase transitions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Renwen Yu , Rasoul Alaee , Robert W. Boyd , F. Javier García de Abajo

Various topological phases, including topological insulators, topological semimetals, and topological superconductors, along with the controllable topological phase transitions, have attracted considerable attention due to their promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-28 Bo-Xuan Li , Ziyin Song , Zhong Fang , Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng

Topological insulators are characterized by spin-momentum-locked massless surface states which are robust under various perturbations. Manipulating such surface states is a topic of vigorous research, as a possible route for the realization…

We demonstrate theoretically the electric tunability due to coalescence of exceptional points in PT-symmetric waveguides bounded by imperfect conductive layers. Owing to the competition effect of multimode interaction, multiple exceptional…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-02 Jin Wang , Hui Yuan Dong , Raymond P. H. Wu , T. C. Mok , Kin Hung Fung

We investigate the plasmonic response of single- and bilayer semi-Dirac materials under the influence of a tunable parameter $\delta$ that governs topological transitions via Dirac cone generation/merging and incorporating band inversion…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 Debasmita Giri , John Schliemann , Rafael Molina , Alexander Lopez

Topological photonics provides a robust and flexible platform for controlling light, enabling functionalities such as backscattering-immune edge transport and slow-light propagation. In this work, we design and characterize photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-12 Ondřej Novák , Martin Veis , Gervasi Herranz

The relation between thermodynamic phase transitions in classical systems and topology changes in their configuration space is discussed for a one-dimensional, analytically tractable solid-on-solid model. The topology of a certain family of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Kastner

Recent experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulator in moir\'e Chern band in twisted transition metal dichalocogenide homobilayers has sparked intensive interest in exploring the ways of engineering band topology and correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-22 Xiaoyang Shen , Chonghao Wang , Ruiping Guo , Zhiming Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Quantum material phases such as the Anderson insulator, diffusive metal, and Weyl/Dirac semimetal as well as topological insulators show specific wave functions both in real and Fourier spaces. These features are well captured by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Tomohiro Mano , Tomi Ohtsuki

Topological transitions of isofrequency surfaces of a composite magnetic-semiconductor structure influenced by an external static magnetic field are studied in the long-wavelength approximation. For the lossless case, the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Volodymyr I. Fesenko , Vladimir R. Tuz

Topological materials host robust properties, unaffected by microscopic perturbations, owing to the global topological properties of the bulk electron system. Materials in which the topological invariant can be changed by easily tuning…

Experimental realizations of topological quantum systems and detections of topological invariants in ultracold atomic systems have been a greatly attractive topic. In this work, we propose a scheme to realize topologically different phases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-19 Zhihao Xu , Yunbo Zhang , Shu Chen

We show here that numerous examples abound where changing topology does not necessarily close the bulk insulating charge gap as demanded in the standard non-interacting picture. From extensive determinantal and dynamical cluster quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-12 Peizhi Mai , Jinchao Zhao , Thomas A. Maier , Barry Bradlyn , Philip W. Phillips

This paper proposes a quantitative description of the low energy edge states at the interface between two-dimensional topological insulators. They are modeled by continuous Hamiltonians as systems of Dirac equations that are amenable to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Guillaume Bal

We present a unified framework to systematically embed complex knotted and linked structures, beyond the torus family, into diverse topological phases, including Hopf insulators, classical spin liquids, topological semimetals, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-27 Snigdh Sabharwal

Fluid flows in nature and applications are frequently subject to periodic velocity modulations. Surprisingly, even for the generic case of flow through a straight pipe, there is little consensus regarding the influence of pulsation on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Duo Xu , Sascha Warnecke , Baofang Song , Xingyu Ma , Björn Hof