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We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by non-interacting Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato

Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) are a perfectly tuned quantum-mechanical machinery in which counter-propagating and oppositely spin-polarized conduction channels balance each other on the surface of the material. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 A. I. Figueroa , T. Hesjedal , N. -J. Steinke

Recently, the impact of disorder on topological properties has attracted significant attention in photonics, especially the intriguing disorder-induced topological phase transitions in photonic topological Anderson insulators (PTAIs).…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-22 Zhe Li , Ziming Chen , Deyang Kong , Yongzhuo Li , Kaiyu Cui , Xue Feng , Yidong Huang

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are candidate materials for various electronic and spintronic devices due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and unique surface electronic structure. Rapid, low-cost preparation of…

Recent experimental advances in controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in open classical and quantum systems. A particular interest centers on the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Zongping Gong , Yuto Ashida , Kohei Kawabata , Kazuaki Takasan , Sho Higashikawa , Masahito Ueda

Topological classification in our previous paper [K. Shiozaki and M. Sato, Phys. Rev. B ${\bf 90}$, 165114 (2014)] is extended to nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators and superconductors. Using the twisted equivariant $K$-theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Ken Shiozaki , Masatoshi Sato , Kiyonori Gomi

We consider antiferromagnets breaking both time-reversal (Theta) and a primitive lattice translational symmetry (T) of a crystal but preserving the combination S = Theta T. The S symmetry leads to a Z_2 topological classification of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Roger S. K. Mong , Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore

Very recently, increasing attention has been focused on non-Abelian topological charges, e.g. the quaternion group Q8. Different from Abelian topological band insulators, these systems involve multiple tangled bulk bandgaps and support…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tianshu Jiang , Qinghua Guo , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Zhao-Qing Zhang , Biao Yang , C. T. Chan

Our understanding of topological insulators is based on an underlying crystalline lattice where the local electronic degrees of freedom at different sites hybridize with each other in ways that produce nontrivial band topology, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

Three dimensional (3D) third-order topological insulators (TIs) have zero-dimensional (0D) corner states, which are three dimensions lower than bulk. Here we investigate the third-order TIs on breathing pyrochlore lattices with p-orbital…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jiyu Wang , Ying Chen , Xiancong Lu

The surfaces of three dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) are generally described as Dirac metals, with a single Dirac cone. It was previously believed that a gapped surface implied breaking of either time reversal $\mathcal T$ or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-28 Xie Chen , Lukasz Fidkowski , Ashvin Vishwanath

We explore a large family of one-dimensional (1D) topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) classified by $\mathbb{Z}$ invariants protected by space-time inversion symmetry. This finding stands in marked contrast to the conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ling Lin , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

We introduce three numerical methods for characterizing the topological phases of three-dimensional multiband Hubbard models based on twisted boundary conditions, Wilson loops, as well as the local topological marker. We focus on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-21 Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Fabian Grusdt , Walter Hofstetter

We describe how optical dressing can be used to generate bandstructures for ultracold atoms with non-trivial Z_2 topological order. Time reversal symmetry is preserved by simple conditions on the optical fields. We first show how to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-21 B. Béri , N. R. Cooper

We present a novel class of topological insulators, termed the Takagi topological insulators (TTIs), which is protected by the sublattice symmetry and spacetime inversion ($\mathcal P\mathcal T$) symmetry. The required symmetries for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Jia-Xiao Dai , Kai Wang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Y. X. Zhao

We discuss a class of three-band non-Abelian topological insulators in three dimensions that carry a single bulk Hopf index protected by spatiotemporal ($\mathcal{PT}$) inversion symmetry. These phases may also host subdimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Arthur S. Morris , Zory Davoyan , Adrien Bouhon , F. Nur Ünal , Robert-Jan Slager

Using a dimensional reduction scheme based on scattering theory, we show that the classification tables for topological insulators and superconductors with reflection symmetry can be organized in two period-two and four period-eight cycles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Luka Trifunovic , Piet Brouwer

A two-dimensional topological insulator may arise in a centrosymmetric commensurate N\'{e}el antiferromagnet (AF), where staggered magnetization breaks both the elementary translation and time reversal, but retains their product as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Frédéric Bègue , Pierre Pujol , Revaz Ramazashvili

Bosonic topological insulators (BTI) in three dimensions are symmetry-protected topological phases (SPT) protected by time-reversal and boson number conservation {symmetries}. BTI in three dimensions were first proposed and classified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Peng Ye , Zheng-Cheng Gu

The prediction of non-trivial topological phases in Bloch insulators in three dimensions has recently been experimentally verified. Here, I provide a picture for obtaining the $Z_{2}$ invariants for a three dimensional topological insulator…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-21 Rahul Roy