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Topological states of matter are characterized by topological invariant, which are physical quantities whose values are quantized and do not depend on details of the measured system. Of these, the easiest to probe in experiments is the…
We discuss thermal transport of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) with broken time reversal symmetry, which are described by Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonians. From the calculations of bulk quantities only, without…
Thermal conductance measurements, sensitive to charge and chargeless energy flow, are evolving as an essential measurement technique in Condensed Matter Physics. For two-dimensional topological insulators, the measurements of the thermal…
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In 2+1-dimensions (2+1D), a gapped quantum phase with no symmetry (i.e. a topological order) can have a thermal Hall conductance $\kappa_{xy}=c \frac{\pi^2 k_B^2}{3h}T$, where the dimensionless $c$ is called chiral central charge. If there…
We study the thermal transport properties of several quantum spin chains and ladders. We find indications for a diverging thermal conductivity at finite temperatures for the models examined. The temperature at which the non-diverging…
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The off-diagonal components of thermal conductance tensor, thermal Hall conductivities (THCs), have extensively been studied in recent condensed matter experiments to investigate fractionalized quantum spin liquids, and quantum Hall…
The angle dependence at different temperatures of the longitudinal thermal conductivity $\kappa_{xx}(\theta)$ in the presence of a planar magnetic field is presented. In order to study the influence of the gap symmetry on the thermal…
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We report on a temperature-induced transition from a conventional semiconductor to a two-dimensional topological insulator investigated by means of magnetotransport experiments on HgTe/CdTe quantum well structures. At low temperatures, we…
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The scaling physics of quantum Hall transport in optimized topological insulators with a plateau precision of ~1/1000 e2/h is considered. Two exponential scaling regimes are observed in temperature-dependent transport dissipation, one of…
We investigate whether there could exist topological invariants of gapped 2D materials related to dissipationless thermoelectric transport at low temperatures. We give both macroscopic and microscopic arguments showing that thermoelectric…