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Topological surface states, a new kind of electronic state of matter, have recently been observed on the cleaved surfaces of crystals of a handful of small band gap semiconductors. The underlying chemical factors that enable these states…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-19 R. J. Cava , Huiwen Ji , M. K. Fuccillo , Q. D. Gibson , Y. S. Hor

Advanced vector imaging techniques provide us with 3D maps of magnetization fields in which topological concepts can be directly applied to describe real-space experimental textures in non-ideal geometries. Here, the 3D magnetization of a…

We introduce the notion of a band-inverted, topological semimetal in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic crystals. This notion is materialized in the monolayers of MTe$_2$ (M $=$ W, Mo) if spin-orbit coupling is neglected. We characterize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lukas Muechler , Aris Alexandradinata , Titus Neupert , Roberto Car

The electronic structure of monolayer pentagonal palladium diselenide (PdSe2) is analyzed from the topological band theory perspective. Employing first-principles calculations, effective models and symmetry indicators, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Sergio Bravo , M. Pacheco , J. D. Correa , Leonor Chico

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

In most topological insulators, the valence and conduction band appear in reverse or inverted order compared to an equivalent insulator with isolated atoms. Here, we explore a different route towards topologically nontrivial states that may…

The metallic surface states of a topological insulator support helical Dirac fermions protected by topology with their spin locked perpendicular to their momentum. They can acquire mass through magnetic doping or through hybridization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Zhou Li , J. P. Carbotte

Topological phases of matter lie at the heart of physics, connecting elegant mathematical principles to real materials that are believed to shape future electronic and quantum computing technologies. To date, studies in this discipline have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Bin Jiang , Adrien Bouhon , Zhi-Kang Lin , Xiaoxi Zhou , Bo Hou , Feng Li , Robert-Jan Slager , Jian-Hua Jiang

Coexistence of topological elements in a topological metal/semimetal (TM) has gradually attracted attentions. However, the non-topological factors always mess up the Fermi surface and cover interesting topological properties. Here, we find…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Jin Cai , Yuee Xie , Po-Yao Chang , Heung-Sik Kim , Yuanping Chen

Topological materials hosting multifold fermions and bosons have emerged as a rich platform for exploring unconventional quasiparticles and transport phenomena. In this work, we investigate the chiral crystal SiTc using first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Nagarjuna Patra , Ajit Singh Jhala , Poorva Singh

The growing skill in the synthesis processes of new materials has intensified the interest in exploring the properties of systems modeled by more complex lattices. Two-dimensional super-honeycomb lattices, have been investigated in metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. B. Felix de Souza , L. Spreafico , D. Faria , A. Latgé

We consider some general aspects of dependence of magneto-conductivity on a magnetic field in metals having complicated Fermi surfaces. As it is well known, a nontrivial behavior of conductivity in metals in strong magnetic fields is…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-26 A. Ya. Maltsev

Magnetic topological semimetals, a novel state of quantum matter with nontrivial band topology, have emerged as a new frontier in physics and materials science. An external stimulus like temperature or magnetic field could be expected to…

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We investigate the influence of general forms of disorder on the robustness of superconductivity in multiband materials. Specifically, we consider a general two-band system where the bands arise from an orbital degree of freedom of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-13 D. C. Cavanagh , P. M. R. Brydon

We derive a model of localized edge states in the finite width strip for two-dimensional electron gas formed in the hybrid system of bismuth monolayer deposited on the silicon interface and described by the nearly-free electron model with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 D. V. Khomitsky , A. A. Chubanov

Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and practical reasons. Although most current studies focus on…

A topological insulator is a state of matter which does not break any symmetry and is characterized by topological invariants, the integer expectation values of non-local operators. Antiferromagnetism on the other hand is a broken symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-15 R. A. Müller , N. R. Lee-Hone , L. Lapointe , D. H. Ryan , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. D. Bianchi , Y. Mozharivskyj , R. Flacau

We investigate the emergence of helical edge modes in a Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice, driven by a topological mechanism similar to that proposed by Dong et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206701 (2023)] for chiral spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Bastian Pradenas , Grigor Adamyan , Oleg Tchernyshyov

We study a topological phase diagram of a ferromagnetic topological nodal semimetal. We consider a lattice model for three-dimensional topological insulators with ferromagnetic ordering. The exchange coupling between the magnetization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 Yuya Ominato , Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura