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The study of topological information of spatial objects has for a long time been a focus of research in disciplines like computational geometry, spatial reasoning, cognitive science, and robotics. While the majority of these researches…

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We present a braided circuit topology framework for investigating topology and structural phase transitions in aggregates of semiflexible polymers. In the conventional approach to circuit topology, which specifically applies to single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Jonas Berx , Alireza Mashaghi

We establish a link between symplectic topology and a recently emerged branch of functional analysis called the theory of quasi-states and quasi-measures. In the symplectic context quasi-states can be viewed as an algebraic way of packaging…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich

We discuss the appearance of fractional topological phases on cyclic evolutions of entangled qudits. The original result reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{106}, 240503 (2011) is detailed and extended to qudits of different dimensions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Z. Khoury , L. E. Oxman

We investigate the extended quasi-particle states in the mixed state of d-wave superconductors on the basis of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. We prove that the quasi-particle eigen-states can be classified in terms of new topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomio Koyama

It has recently been demonstrated that it is possible to open a gap in a magnetic Weyl semimetal, while preserving the chiral anomaly along with the charge conservation and translational symmetries, which all protect the gapless nodes in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-27 Jinmin Yi , Xuzhe Ying , Lei Gioia , A. A. Burkov

We propose realization of non-Abelian topological superconductivity in two-dimensional quasicrystals by the same mechanism as in crystalline counterparts. Specifically, we study a two-dimensional electron gas in Penrose and Ammann-Beenker…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-19 Rasoul Ghadimi , Takanori Sugimoto , K. Tanaka , Takami Tohyama

We introduce new classes of gapped topological phases characterized by quantized crystalline-electromagnetic responses, termed "multipolar Chern insulators". These systems are characterized by nonsymmorphic momentum-space symmetries and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sachin Vaidya , André Grossi Fonseca , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Taylor L. Hughes , Marin Soljačić

Band-topology is traditionally analyzed in terms of gauge-invariant observables associated with crystalline Bloch wavefunctions. Recent work has demonstrated that many of the free fermion topological characteristics survive even in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-20 Sunghoon Kim , Adhip Agarwala , Debanjan Chowdhury

We study the phase space of spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmology in general scalar-tensor theories. A reduction to a two-dimensional phase space is performed when possible-in these situations the phase space is usually a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni

Matrix configurations coming from matrix models comprise many important aspects of modern physics. They represent special quantum spaces and are thus strongly related to noncommutative geometry. In order to establish a semiclassical limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Laura Olivia Felder

$\alpha$-Sn is an elemental topological material, whose topological phases can be tuned by strain and magnetic field. Such tunability offers a substantial potential for topological electronics. However, InSb substrates, commonly used to…

Introducing internal degrees of freedom in the description of topological insulators has led to a myriad of theoretical and experimental advances. Of particular interest are the effects of periodic perturbations, either in time or space, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Ioannis Petrides , Oded Zilberberg

We study the interplay between topological and conventional long range order of attractive fermions in a time reversal symmetric Hofstadter lattice using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, focussing on the case of one-third flux quantum per…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-11 Lei Wang , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Matthias Troyer

Topological phases realized in time-reversal invariant (TRI) systems are foundational to experimental study of the broader canon of topological condensed matter as they do not require exotic magnetic orders for realization. We therefore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 R. Flores-Calderon , Ashley M. Cook

We investigate the three-dimensional, time-reversal invariant topological superconductors with generic interaction by their response to external fields. The first description is a gravitational topological field theory, which gives a $Z_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-29 Zhong Wang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Amorphous topological states, which are independent of the specific spatial distribution of microscopic constructions, have gained much attention. Recently, higher-order topological insulators, which are a new class of topological phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Zheng-Rong Liu , Hai-Ming Huang , Bin Zhou

We show that topological phases with fractional excitations can occur in two-dimensional ultracold dipolar gases on a particular class of optical lattices. Due to the dipolar interaction and lattice confinement, a quantum dimer model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-26 Kai Sun , Erhai Zhao , W. Vincent Liu

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

The dynamics of the magnetic field in a superconducting phase is described by an effective massive bosonic field theory. If the superconductor is confined in a domain M with boundary \partial M, the boundary conditions of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , J. M. Perez-Pardo