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Topological quantum materials hold great promise for future technological applications. Their unique electronic properties, such as protected surface states and exotic quasiparticles, offer opportunities for designing novel electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Christian Stefan Gruber , Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) topological electronic insulators are known to give rise to gapless edge modes, which underlie low energy dynamics, including electrical and thermal transport. This has been thoroughly investigated in the context of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Udit Khanna , Yuval Gefen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Topological quantum matter is characterized by non-trivial global invariants of the bulk which induce gapless electronic states at its boundaries. A case in point are two-dimensional topological insulators (2D-TI) which host one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 R. Stühler , F. Reis , T. Müller , T. Helbig , T. Schwemmer , R. Thomale , J. Schäfer , R. Claessen

Topological insulators are a recently discovered class of materials with fascinating properties: While the inside of the solid is insulating, fundamental symmetry considerations require the surfaces to be metallic. The metallic surface…

The rise of topological insulators in recent years has broken new ground both in the conceptual cognition of condensed matter physics and the promising revolution of the electronic devices. It also stimulates the explorations of more…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianfeng Wang , Na Wang , Huaqing Huang , Wenhui Duan

In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and bulk topological superconductors. The basic concepts,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-12 Yoichi Ando , Liang Fu

The unique properties of spin-polarized surface or edge states in topological insulators (TIs) make these quantum coherent systems interesting from the point of view of both fundamental physics and their implementation in low power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Juan Pedro Cascales , Isidoro Martınez , Ferhat Katmis , Cui-Zu Chang , Ruben Guerrero , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Farkhad G. Aliev

Presence of entangled states is explicitly shown in Topological insulator (TI) $Bi_2Te_3$. The surface and bulk state are found to have the different structures of entanglement. The surface states live as maximally entangled states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Anvesh Raja Kovela , Anant Vijay Verma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Bhavesh Chauhan

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 insulators are transformative quantum solids with immune-to-disorder metallic surface states having Dirac band structure. Ubiquitous charged bulk defects, however, pull the Fermi energy into the bulk bands, denying access to…

Recently, the theory of quantized dipole polarization has been extended to account for electric multipole moments, giving rise to the discovery of multipole topological insulators (TIs). Both two-dimensional (2D) quadrupole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Qingsong Pei , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Topological insulators are states of matter distinguished by the presence of symmetry protected metallic boundary states. These edge modes have been characterised in terms of transport and spectroscopic measurements, but a thermodynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anton Quelle , Emilio Cobanera , Cristiane Morais Smith

The topological mechanics is a perfect tool that can bridge the gap between the quantum and Newtonian physics and mechanics of materials. It requires discrete models of the material with analogies with the topological characteristics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohamed Shaat

One of the hallmarks of topological insulators is the correspondence between the value of its bulk topological invariant and the number of topologically protected edge modes observed in a finite-sized sample. This bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

The notion of topological insulators (TIs), characterized by an insulating bulk and conducting topological surface states, can be extended to higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) hosting gapless modes localized at the boundaries of…

Information processing devices operating in the quantum mechanical regime strongly rely on the quantum coherence of charge carriers. Studies of electronic dephasing in conventional metallic and semiconductor systems have not only paved the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Abhishek Banerjee , Ananthesh Sundaresh , R. Ganesan , P. S. Anil Kumar

Commonly materials are classified as either electrical conductors or insulators. The theoretical discovery of topological insulators (TIs) in 2005 has fundamentally challenged this dichotomy. In a TI, spin-orbit interaction generates a…

The discovery of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators opens a gateway to generate unusual phases and particles made of the helical surface electrons, proposing new applications using unusual spin nature. Demonstration of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 Seung Sae Hong , Yi Zhang , Judy J. Cha , Xiao-Liang Qi , Yi Cui

Existence of robust edge modes at interfaces of topologically dissimilar systems is one of the most fascinating manifestations of a novel nontrivial state of matter, topological insulators. Such electronic states were originally predicted…