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Topological invariants, such as the Chern number, characterise topological phases of matter. Here we provide a method to detect Chern numbers in systems with two distinct species of fermion, such as spins, orbitals or several atomic states.…

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

Topological materials, such as topological insulators or semimetals, usually not only reveal the nontrivial properties of their electronic wavefunctions through the appearance of stable boundary modes, but also through very specific…

Topological insulators present a bulk gap, but allow for dissipationless spin transport along the edges. These exotic states are characterized by the $Z_2$ topological invariant and are protected by time-reversal symmetry. The Kane-Mele…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-10 Zi Yang Meng , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Thomas C. Lang

Topological insulators exhibit gapless edge or surface states that are topologically protected by time-reversal symmetry. However, several promising candidates for topologically insulating materials (such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and HgTe) contain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Arian Vezvaee , Antonio Russo , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

Insulating materials with dynamical spin degrees of freedom have recently emerged as viable conduits for spin flows. Transport phenomena harbored therein are, however, turning out to be much richer than initially envisioned. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Topological insulators are novel macroscopic quantum-mechanical phase of matter, which hold promise for realizing some of the most exotic particles in physics as well as application towards spintronics and quantum computation. In all the…

In this Book Chapter (invited) we briefly review the basic concepts defining topological insulators and focus on elaborating on the key experimental results that revealed and established their symmetry protected (SPT) topological nature. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Madhab Neupane

The interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology opens an exciting avenue for engineering novel topological matter with unprecedented properties. While previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional systems or Chern insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

Quantum spin Hall insulators are a class of topological materials that has been extensively studied during the past decade. One of their distinctive features is the presence of a finite band gap in the bulk and gapless, topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Davide Grassano , Davide Campi , Antimo Marrazzo , Nicola Marzari

The surface conductivity for conduction electrons with a fixed chirality in a topological insulator with impurities scattering is considered. The surface excitations are described by the Weyl Hamiltonian. For a finite chemical potential one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 D. Schmeltzer

We proposed a group-theory method to calculate topological invariant in bi-isotropic photonic crystals invariant under crystallographic point group symmetries. Spin Chern number has been evaluated by the eigenvalues of rotation operators at…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-11 Xiao-Dong Chen , Zi-Lan Deng , Wen-Jie Chen , Jia-Rong Wang , Jian-Wen Dong

The studies of topological insulators and topological semimetals have been at frontiers of condensed matter physics and material science. Both classes of materials are characterized by robust surface states created by the topology of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-10 Wei Ning , Zhiqiang Mao

This review deals with strongly disordered topological insulators and covers some recent applications of a well established analytic theory based on the methods of Non-Commutative Geometry (NCG) and developed for the Integer Quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Emil Prodan

A historical review of spin- and angle-resolved photoemission on topological materials is presented, aimed at readers who are new to the field or who wish to obtain an overview of the activities in the field. The main focus lies on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 J. Hugo Dil

Topological quantum materials, with novel spin textures and broken crystal symmetries are suitable candidates for spintronic memory technologies. Their unique electronic properties, such as protected surface states and exotic…

Weyl semimetals are well-known for hosting topologically protected linear band crossings, serving as the analog of the relativistic Weyl Fermions in the condensed matter context. Such analogy persists deeply, allowing the existence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Yang Gao

Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and materials science. Since there is a direct connection between real space,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-23 Nitesh Kumar , Satya N. Guin , Kaustuv Manna , Chandra Shekhar , Claudia Felser

Based on irreducible representations (or symmetry eigenvalues) and compatibility relations, a material can be predicted to be a topological/trivial insulator [satisfying compatibility relations] or a topological semimetal [violating…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Jiacheng Gao , Yuting Qian , Simin Nie , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

The electronic structures of graphene systems and topological insulators have closely-related features, such as quantized Berry phase and zero-energy edge states. The reason for these analogies is that in both systems there are two relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Jian Li , Ivar Martin , Markus Buttiker , Alberto F. Morpurgo