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We establish a quantitative bulk-boundary correspondence in interacting topological insulators by relating many-body topological invariants to characteristic degeneracy structures in the entanglement spectrum. Focusing on generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Kiran Babasaheb Estake , Dibyendu Roy

Insulating systems are characterized by their insensitivity to twisted boundary conditions as quantified by the charge stiffness and charge localization length. The latter quantity was shown to be related to the expectation value of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Oleg Dubinkin , Julian May-Mann , Taylor L. Hughes

We present a framework for characterizing higher-order topological phases directly from the one-particle density matrix, without any reference to an underlying Hamiltonian. Our approach extends the mode-shell correspondence, originally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Miguel F. Martínez , Lucien Jezequel , Jens H. Bardarson , Thomas Klein Kvorning , Julia D. Hannukainen

Topological insulators in the Bi$_2$Se$_3$ family manifest helical Dirac surface states that span the topologically ordered bulk band gap. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy measurements have discovered additional states in the bulk band…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Yishuai Xu , Guodong Jiang , Janet Chiu , Lin Miao , Erica Kotta , Yutan Zhang , Rudro R. Biswas , L. Andrew Wray

In this study, we discuss a new type of bulk-boundary correspondence which holds for topological insulators and superconductors when the parity-time ($PT$) and/or parity-particle-hole ($PC$) symmetry are present. In these systems, even when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ryo Takahashi , Tomoki Ozawa

Using generic properties of Clifford algebras in any spatial dimension, we explicitly classify Dirac hamiltonians with zero modes protected by the discrete symmetries of time-reversal, particle-hole symmetry, and chirality. Assuming the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 André LeClair , Denis Bernard

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 same bulk two-dimensional topological phase can have multiple distinct, fully-chiral edge phases. We show that this can occur in the integer quantum Hall states at $\nu=8$ and 12, with experimentally-testable consequences. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-28 Jennifer Cano , Meng Cheng , Michael Mulligan , Chetan Nayak , Eugeniu Plamadeala , Jon Yard

We show that the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological insulators can be modified in the presence of non-Hermiticity. We consider a one-dimensional tight-binding model with gain and loss as well as long-range hopping. The system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Tony E. Lee

We study transport across a time-dependent magnetic barrier present on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that such a barrier can be implemented for Dirac electrons on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Adithi Udupa , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

This course-based primer provides newcomers to the field with a concise introduction to some of the core topics in the emerging field of topological band insulators in one and two dimensions. The aim is to provide a basic understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 János K. Asbóth , László Oroszlány , András Pályi

In higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), topologically nontrivial phases are usually associated with the shift of Wannier centers to topologically nontrivial positions on the edges of the unit cells, and the emergence of fractional…

We derive a rigorous classification of topologically stable Fermi surfaces of non-interacting, discrete translation-invariant systems from electronic band theory, adiabatic evolution and their topological interpretations. For systems on an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Alejandro Adem , Omar Antolín Camarena , Gordon W. Semenoff , Daniel Sheinbaum

This contribution describes the mathematical theory of topological indices in solid state systems composed of non-interacting Fermions. In particular, this covers the spectral localizer and the bulk-boundary correspondence.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Hermann Schulz-Baldes

In two dimensions, interacting Floquet topological phases may arise even in the absence of any protecting symmetry, exhibiting chiral edge transport that is robust to local perturbations. We explore a similar class of Floquet topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 Dominic Reiss , Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy

It is well established that topological insulators sustain Dirac fermion surface states as a consequence of band inversion in the bulk. These states have a helical spin polarization and a linear dispersion with large Fermi velocity. In this…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI) are novel quantum materials with insulating bulk and topologically protected metallic surfaces with Dirac-like band structure. The spin-helical Dirac surface states are expected to host…

In 2D Chern insulators (2D CI), the topology of the bulk states is captured by a topological invariant, the Chern number. The scalar bulk-boundary correspondence (sBBC) relates the change in Chern number across an interface with the number…

Fractional topological insulators are electronic systems that carry fractionally charged excitations, conserve charge and are symmetric to reversal of time. In this review we introduce the basic essential concepts of the field, and then…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Ady Stern

Similar to static systems, periodically driven systems can host a variety of topologically non-trivial phases. Unlike the case of static Hamiltonians, the topological indices of bulk Floquet bands may fail to describe the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. C. Fulga , M. Maksymenko