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Topological invariants allow to characterize Hamiltonians, predicting the existence of topologically protected in-gap modes. Those invariants can be computed by tracing the evolution of the occupied wavefunctions under twisted boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 D. Carvalho , N. A. Garcia-Martinez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We demonstrate the realization of topological band structures by exploiting the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling of dipolar interactions in combination with broken time-reversal symmetry. The system is based on polar molecules trapped in a…

We show that the Z$_2$ invariant, which classifies the topological properties of time reversal invariant insulators, has deep relationship with the global anomaly. Although the second Chern number is the basic topological invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Fukui , T. Fujiwara , Y. Hatsugai

The use of topological invariants to describe geometric phases of quantum matter has become an essential tool in modern solid state physics. The first instance of this paradigmatic trend can be traced to the study of the quantum Hall…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Domenico Monaco

Many-body topological quantum states host exotic quantum phenomena and lie at the forefront of developing next-generation quantum technologies. Recently emerged neural network wavefunction methods have established themselves as a powerful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-13 Haoxiang Chen , Yubing Qian , Weiluo Ren , Xiang Li , Ji Chen

Characteristic classes, which are abstract topological invariants associated with vector bundles, have become an important notion in modern physics with surprising real-world consequences. As a representative example, the incredible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Cody Tipton , Elizabeth Coda , Davis Brown , Alyson Bittner , Jung Lee , Grayson Jorgenson , Tegan Emerson , Henry Kvinge

We present models of topological insulating Hamiltonians exhibiting intrinsic altermagnetic features, protected by combined three-fold or four-fold rotational symmetries with time-reversal. We demonstrate that the spin Chern number serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

In this paper, we present a novel experimental approach for simulating and detecting topological invariants using ultracold fermions confined in two-dimensional hexagonal optical lattices. We propose achieving two-fold degenerate four-band…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-12 Jing-Xin Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Hai-Tao Ding

Chern insulators are states of matter characterized by a quantized Hall conductance, gapless edge modes but also a singular response to monopole configurations of an external electromagnetic field. In this paper, we describe the nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Thomas Klein Kvorning , Christian Spånslätt , AtMa P. O. Chan , Shinsei Ryu

We introduce a novel gauge-invariant, quantized interband index in two-dimensional (2D) multiband systems. It provides a bulk topological classification of a submanifold of parameter space (e.g., an electron valley in a Brillouin zone), and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Tharindu Fernando , Ting Cao

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the spinful extended Haldane-Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice using an exact-diagonalization, mean-field variational approach, and further complement it with the infinite density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Can Shao , Eduardo V. Castro , Shijie Hu , Rubem Mondaini

It is still an outstanding challenge to characterize and understand the topological features of strongly interacting states such as bound-states in interacting quantum systems. Here, by introducing a cotranslational symmetry in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-17 Xizhou Qin , Feng Mei , Yongguan Ke , Li Zhang , Chaohong Lee

Ultracold fermions trapped in a honeycomb optical lattice constitute a versatile setup to experimentally realize the Haldane model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2015 (1988)]. In this system, a non-uniform synthetic magnetic flux can be engineered…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-15 N. Goldman , E. Anisimovas , F. Gerbier , P. Ohberg , I. B. Spielman , G. Juzeliunas

Fascination in topological materials originates from their remarkable response properties and exotic quasiparticles which can be utilized in quantum technologies. In particular, large-scale efforts are currently focused on realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Paul Baireuther , Marcin Płodzień , Teemu Ojanen , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart

Topological materials are characterized by integer invariants that underpin their robust quantized electronic features, as famously exemplified by the Chern number in the integer quantum Hall effect. Yet, in most candidate systems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Yuval Abulafia , Eric Akkermans

We present mathematical details of the construction of a topological invariant for periodically driven two-dimensional lattice systems with time-reversal symmetry and quasienergy gaps, which was proposed recently by some of us. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 David Carpentier , Pierre Delplace , Michel Fruchart , Krzysztof Gawędzki , Clément Tauber

A striking example of frustration in physics is Hofstadter's butterfly, a fractal structure that emerges from the competition between a crystal's lattice periodicity and the magnetic length of an applied field. Current methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Catalin D. Spataru , Wei Pan , Alexander Cerjan

Two dimensional materials subject to long-wavelength modulations have emerged as novel platforms to study topological and correlated quantum phases. In this article, we develop a versatile and computationally inexpensive method to predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Valentin Crépel , Jennifer Cano

Despite sharing a common lattice structure, monolayer M$_2$X$_2$ compounds realize quantum anomalous Hall phases with distinct Chern numbers, a striking phenomenon that has not been fully exploared. Combining first-principles calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Zujian Dai , Xudong Zhu , Lixin He

We analyse the topological transition and localization evolution of disordered two dimensional systems with non trivial topology based on bipartite lattices. Chern insulators with broken time reversal symmetry show non standard behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Eduardo V. Castro , M. Pilar López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano