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We show that in crystalline insulators point group symmetry alone gives rise to a topological classification based on the quantization of electric polarization. Using C3 rotational symmetry as an example, we first prove that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-25 Priyamvada Jadaun , Di Xiao , Qian Niu , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Topological crystalline insulators are phases of matter where the crystalline symmetries solely protect the topology. In this work, we explore the effect of many-body interactions in a subclass of topological crystalline insulators, namely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-25 Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Amrita Ghosh , Eytan Grosfeld

We consider symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with crystalline point group symmetry, dubbed point group SPT (pgSPT) phases. We show that such phases can be understood in terms of lower-dimensional topological phases with on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Hao Song , Sheng-Jie Huang , Liang Fu , Michael Hermele

Topological phases of matter have been extensively studied for their intriguing bulk and edge properties. Recently, higher-order topological insulators with boundary states that are two or more dimensions lower than the bulk states, have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiujuan Zhang , Bi-Ye Xie , Hong-Fei Wang , Xiangyuan Xu , Yuan Tian , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

We describe recent progress in our understanding of the interplay between interactions, symmetry, and topology in states of quantum matter. We focus on a minimal generalization of the celebrated topological band insulators to interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 T. Senthil

We put the theory of interacting topological crystalline phases on a systematic footing. These are topological phases protected by space-group symmetries. Our central tool is an elucidation of what it means to "gauge" such symmetries. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 Ryan Thorngren , Dominic V. Else

We study topological states of matter in quasicrystals, which do not rely on crystalline orders. In the absence of a bandstructure description and spin-orbit coupling, we show that a three-dimensional quasicrystal can nevertheless form a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Zhu-Guang Chen , Cunzhong Lou , Kaige Hu , Lih-King Lim

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum materials in which time-reversal symmetry, relativistic (spin-orbit) effects and an inverted band structure result in electronic metallic states on the surfaces of bulk crystals. These…

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are a new class of materials which have metallic surface states on select surfaces due to point group crystalline symmetries. In this letter, we consider a model for a three-dimensional (3D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Yuxuan Wang , Taylor L. Hughes

Three-dimensional higher-order topological semimetals in crystalline systems exhibit higher-order Fermi arcs on one-dimensional hinges, challenging the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the existence of higher-order Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

We study a two-dimensional (2D) tight-binding model of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) protected by rotation symmetry. The model is built by stacking two Chern insulators with opposite Chern numbers which transform under conjugate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Shang Liu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Eslam Khalaf

We discuss physical properties of `integer' topological phases of bosons in D=3+1 dimensions, protected by internal symmetries like time reversal and/or charge conservation. These phases invoke interactions in a fundamental way but do not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 Ashvin Vishwanath , T. Senthil

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) possess electronic states protected by crystal symmetries, rather than time-reversal symmetry. We show that the transition metal oxides with heavy transition metals are able to support nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Mehdi Kargarian , Gregory A. Fiete

We consider an interface between two strong time-reversal invariant topological insulators having surface states with opposite spin chirality, or equivalently, opposite mirror Chern number. We show that such an interface supports gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Christophe De Beule , Rolando Saniz , Bart Partoens

We present a series of models of three-dimensional rotation-symmetric fragile topological insulators in class AI (time-reversal symmetric and spin-orbit-free systems), which have gapless surface states protected by time-reversal ($T$) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Shingo Kobayashi , Akira Furusaki

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are insulating electronic phases of matter with nontrivial topology originating from crystalline symmetries. Recent theoretical advances have provided powerful guidelines to search for TCIs in real…

A single Dirac cone on the surface is the hallmark of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators, where the double degeneracy at the Dirac point is protected by time-reversal symmetry and the spin-splitting away from the point is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Ling Lu , Chen Fang , Liang Fu , Steven G. Johnson , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

The natural existence of crystalline symmetry in real materials manifests the importance of understanding crystalline symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, especially for interacting systems. In this paper, we systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Jian-Hao Zhang , Shang-Qiang Ning , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Three dimensional topological insulator crystals consist of an insulating bulk enclosed by metallic surfaces, and detailed theoretical predictions about the surface state band topology and spin texture are available. While several…

We study surface states of topological crystalline insulators and superconductors protected by inversion symmetry. These fall into the category of "higher-order" topological insulators and superconductors which possess surface states that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Eslam Khalaf