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In this paper we link the physics of topological nonlinear {\sigma} models with that of Chern-Simons insulators. We show that corresponding to every 2n-dimensional Chern-Simons insulator there is a (n-1)-dimensional topological nonlinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Hong Yao , Dung-Hai Lee

After exploring much on two-dimensional higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSCs) hosting Majorana corner modes (MCMs) only, we propose a simple fermionic model based on a three-dimensional topological insulator proximized with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

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

We propose a new partially topological theory in three dimensions which couples Chern-Simons theory to matter. The 3-manifolds needed for this construction admit transverse holomorphic foliation (THF). The theory depends only on the choice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-29 Mina Aganagic , Kevin Costello , Jacob McNamara , Cumrun Vafa

Topological features of possible three-dimensional (3D) states in \alpha-type layered organic conductors are investigated within a unified framework based on Wannier charge centers (WCCs), aiming to identify their actual topological states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Toshihito Osada

From the low-energy model, the topological field theory indicates that the surface magnetization can open a surface gap in 3D topological insulators (TIs), resulting in a half-quantized Hall conductance. Here by employing the realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

Conventional $n$-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) have protected gapless $(n - 1)$-dimensional boundary states. In contrast to this, second-order TSCs are characterized by topologically protected gapless $(n - 2)$-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Franco Nori

The existence of fractionally quantized topological corner states serves as a key indicator for two-dimensional second-order topological insulators (SOTIs), yet has not been experimentally observed in realistic materials. Here, based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-08 Fangyang Zhan , Zheng Qin , Dong-Hui Xu , Xiaoyuan Zhou , Da-Shuai Ma , Rui Wang

The mechanism of the unconventional topological superconductivity (TSC) remains a long-standing issue. We investigate the quantum phase diagram of the extended $t$-$J$-$J_{\chi}$ model including spin chiral interactions on triangular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng

Recently, a new class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) characterized by an electronic dipole has been theoretically introduced and proposed to host topological corner states. As a novel topological state, it has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Jiang Zeng , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Topological materials host fascinating low dimensional gapless states at the boundary. As a prominent example, helical topological edge states (TESs) of two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs) and their stacked three-dimensional (3D)…

Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

Topological superconductors (TSCs) have a full gap in the bulk and gapless surface states consisting of Majorana fermions, which have potential applications in fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Because TSCs are very rare in…

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

Dirac semimetal is a class of semi-metallic phase protected by certain types of crystalline symmetries, and its low-energy effective Hamiltonian is described by Dirac equations in three dimensions (3D). Despite of various theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

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

Time Reversal Symmetry (TRS) broken topological phases provide gapless surface states protected by topology, regardless of additional internal symmetries, spin or valley degrees of freedom. Despite the numerous demonstrations of 2D…

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

We systematically study topological phases of insulators and superconductors (SCs) in 3D. We find that there exist 3D topologically non-trivial insulators or SCs in 5 out of 10 symmetry classes introduced by Altland and Zirnbauer within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-15 Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We propose a general framework for designing a two-dimensional (2D) topological superconductor (TSC) using a magnet-superconductor hybrid system. This setup involves a monolayer of CrInTe$_3$, which hosts noncoplanar magnetic textures, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-12 Arnob Mukherjee , Fengyi Zhou , Soheil Ershadrad , Tanay Nag , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal