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Topological insulators (TIs) are materials that have a bulk electronic band gap like an ordinary insulator but have protected conducting states on their surface. One of the most interesting properties of TIs is their spin helicity, whereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Xuetao Zhu , Colin Howard , Jiandong Guo , Michael El-Batanouny

The classification and lattice model construction of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in interacting fermion systems are very interesting but challenging. In this paper, we give a systematic fixed point wave function construction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Qing-Rui Wang , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We consider symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with finite non-invertible symmetry $\mathcal{C}$ in 1+1d. In particular, we investigate interfaces and parameterized families of them within the framework of matrix product states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-19 Kansei Inamura , Shuhei Ohyama

We study a two-dimensional (2D) tight-binding model of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) protected by rotation symmetry. The model is built by stacking two Chern insulators with opposite Chern numbers which transform under conjugate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Shang Liu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Eslam Khalaf

We study bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with $C_{2}$ rotational symmetry in four spatial dimensions which is not captured by the group cohomology classification. By using the topological crystal approach, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Sheng-Jie Huang

Topological crystalline insulators define a new class of topological insulator phases with gapless surface states protected by crystalline symmetries. In this work, we present a general theory to classify topological crystalline insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Xiao-Yu Dong , Chao-Xing Liu

We study a non-Hermitian non-Abelian topological insulator preserving $PT$ symmetry, where the non-Hermitian term represents nonreciprocal hoppings. As it increases, a spontaneous $PT$ symmetry breaking transition occurs in the perfect-flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Motohiko Ezawa

Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped quantum phases which host symmetry-protected gapless edge excitations. On the other hand, the edge states can be gapped by spontaneously breaking symmetry. We show that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-20 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

The metallic surface state of a topological insulator (TI) is not only topologically protected, but exhibits a remarkable property of inducing an effective vector potential on curved surfaces. For an electron in the surface state of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yositake Takane

We study one-dimensional disordered systems with average non-invertible symmetries, where quenched disorder may locally break part of the symmetry while preserving it upon disorder averaging. A canonical example is the random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-11 Yabo Li , Meng Cheng , Ruochen Ma

Non-Hermiticity appears ubiquitously in various open classical and quantum systems and enriches classification of topological phases. However, the role of nonsymmorphic symmetry, crystalline symmetry accompanying fractional lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Daichi Nakamura , Yutaro Tanaka , Ken Shiozaki , Kohei Kawabata

We investigate (1+1)d symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetries. We emphasize that the UV description of an anomaly-free fusion category symmetry must include the fiber functor, giving rise to a local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Chenqi Meng , Xinping Yang , Tian Lan , Zhengcheng Gu

We introduce an index for symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases of infinite fermionic chains with an on-site symmetry given by a finite group $G$. This index takes values in $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times H^1(G,\mathbb{Z}_2) \times H^2(G,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Chris Bourne , Yoshiko Ogata

We explore 1+1 dimensional (1+1D) gapped phases in systems with non-invertible symmetries, focusing on symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases (defined as gapped phases with non-degenerate ground states), as well as SPT orders (defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Ömer M. Aksoy , Xiao-Gang Wen

We consider quantum many body systems with generalized symmetries, such as the higher form symmetries introduced recently, and the "tensor symmetry". We consider a general form of lattice Hamiltonians which allow a certain level of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

We show that certain band gaps, which appear topologically trivial from the perspective of symmetry indicators (SIs), must instead be topological, as guaranteed by real-space information that follows from Topological Quantum Chemistry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Yoonseok Hwang , Vaibhav Gupta , Frank Schindler , Luis Elcoro , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Barry Bradlyn

Topological insulators are materials with a bulk excitation gap generated by the spin orbit interaction, and which are different from conventional insulators. This distinction is characterized by Z_2 topological invariants, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) host topological phases of matter protected by crystal symmetries. Topological surface states in three-dimensional TCIs have been predicted and observed in IV-VI SnTe-class semiconductors. Despite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Liwei Jing , Mohammad Amini , Adolfo O. Fumega , Orlando J. Silveira , Jose L. Lado , Peter Liljeroth , Shawulienu Kezilebieke

Gapless criteria that can efficiently determine whether a crystal is gapless or not are particularly useful for identifying topological semimetals. In this work, we propose a sufficient gapless criterion for three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Jiabin Yu , Zhi-Da Song , Chao-Xing Liu

We study classification of interacting fermionic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with both rotation symmetry and Abelian internal symmetries in one, two, and three dimensions. By working out this classification, on the one hand,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Meng Cheng , Chenjie Wang