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We explore the critical properties of a topological transition in a two-dimensional, amorphous lattice with randomly distributed points. The model intrinsically breaks the time-reversal symmetry without an external magnetic field, akin to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Soumya Bera , Johannes Dieplinger , Naba P Nayak

The topology of the non-adiabatic parameter space bundle is discussed for evolution of exact cyclic state vectors in Berry's original example of split angular momentum eigenstates. It turns out that the change in topology occurs at a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Ali Mostafazadeh , Arno Bohm

It was recently found that, going beyond the tendfold Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes and violating the bulk-boundary correspondence of the usual topological phases, PT-invariant systems support a real Chern insulator with the so-called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Hong Wu , Jun-Hong An

It is known that, in the thermodynamic limit, the Chern number of a translationally invariant system cannot change under unitary time evolutions that are smooth in momentum space. Yet a real-space counterpart of the Chern number, the Bott…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-01 Yang Ge , Marcos Rigol

We describe a class of parity- and time-reversal-invariant topological states of matter which can arise in correlated electron systems in 2+1-dimensions. These states are characterized by particle-like excitations exhibiting exotic braiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak , Kirill Shtengel , Kevin Walker , Zhenghan Wang

We investigate Riemannian quantum-geometric structures in semiclassical transport features of two-dimensional multigap topological phases. In particular, we study nonlinear Hall-like bulk electric current responses and, accordingly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Ashwat Jain , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager

There has been a recent surge of interest in dualities relating theories of Chern-Simons gauge fields coupled to either bosons or fermions within the condensed matter community, particularly in the context of topological insulators and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-02 Aaron Hui , Michael Mulligan , Eun-Ah Kim

In this paper we explore the effects of quasiperiodicity in paradigmatic models of Chern insulators. We identify a plethora of topological phase transitions and characterize them based on spectral and localization properties. Contrary to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-16 Tiago S. Gonçalves , Miguel Gonçalves , Pedro Ribeiro , Bruno Amorim

We classify the topology of bands defined by the energy states of quantum systems with scale separation between slow and fast degrees of freedom, invariant under fermionic time reversal. Classical phase space transforms differently from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Omri Gat , JM Robbins

We first study the importance of the sign of the Berry curvature in the Euler characteristic of the two-dimensional topological material with two bands. Then we report an observation of a character of the topological transition as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Han-Byul Kim , Taewon Yuk , Sang-Jin Sin

We propose a two-dimensional non-Hermitian Chern insulator with inversion symmetry, which is anisotropic and has staggered gain and loss in both x and y directions. In this system, conventional bulk-boundary correspondence holds. The Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 H. C. Wu , L. Jin , Z. Song

The standard Landau-Ginzburg scenario of phase transition is broken down for quantum phase transition. It is difficult to find an order parameter to indicate different phases for quantum fluctuations. Here, we suggest a topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-10 Zhe Chang , Ping Wang

The past few years have seen rapid progress in characterizing topological band structures using symmetry eigenvalue indicated methods. Recently, however, there has been increasing theoretical and experimental interest in multi-gap dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

Topological quantum phase transitions in superconductivity are discussed on two dimensional lattices. The main focus is on the Chern number for superconducting states. Each superconductivity is characterized by the Chern number, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Hatsugai , Shinsei Ryu

Non-Hermitian topological edge states have many intriguing properties, but have so far mainly been discussed in terms of bulk-boundary correspondence. Here we propose to use a bulk property of diffusion coefficients for probing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zhiyu Tian , Yang Liu , Le Luo

Recent experiments began to explore the topological properties of quench dynamics, i.e. the time evolution following a sudden change in the Hamiltonian, via tomography of quantum gases in optical lattices. In contrast to the well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao

We propose a geometric criterion of the topological phase transition for non-Hermitian systems. We define the length of the boundary of the bulk band in the complex energy plane for non-Hermitian systems. For one-dimensional systems, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Annan Fan , Shi-Dong Liang

The existence of topological invariants analogous to Chern/Pontryagin classes for a standard $SO(D)$ or $SU(N)$ connection, but constructed out of the torsion tensor, is discussed. These invariants exhibit many of the features of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Osvaldo Chandia , Jorge Zanelli

Topological phase transitions in band models are usually associated to the gap closing between the highest valance band and the lowest conduction band, which can give rise to different types of nodal structures, such as Dirac/Weyl points,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Giandomenico Palumbo